NATIONAL LOTTERY CHARITIES BOARD
Annual Report The National Lottery Charities Board is an independent body which distributes a share of the money raised by the National Lottery to charitable, philanthropic and benevolent groups.
Our aim is to help those at greatest disadvantage in society and to improve the quality of life in communities across the UK.
We give grants to charities and voluntary groups throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and to UK-based voluntary organisations working abroad.
Local decision making is the cornerstone of our grant-giving, with nine regional offices in England and offices in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Our England head office is in Leicester and our corporate office is in London. Contents
2 Highlights of the year ended 28 Grants programmes in 31 March 1998 1998/99 3 Looking to the future – 30 Our commitments the year ahead 31 Listening and learning 4 Chairman’s message 32 Grants of £100,000 6 Chief Executive’s report and over
7 Cause and effect 42 Who we are: Board members and 8 Our grants committees, advisory panels 16 Putting lottery funds to work: and Directors England, Wales, Scotland, 46 Finance Northern Ireland, across the UK and abroad 64 Where to find us 26 Grant-making in action Back cover Our corporate goals
Putting the Lottery pound to work*
28p National Lottery Distribution Fund for ‘good causes’ 50p Prizes 4.7p National Lottery Charities Board 12p Treasury 5p Camelot
5p retailers Over £811 million awarded to 13,947 charities and voluntary groups (October 1994 - 31 March 1998). Not just for charities Applicants do not have to be a charity to qualify for a grant, although they must be set up for charitable, philanthropic or benevolent purposes. Over a quarter of the grants we awarded during the year were to groups who are not registered as charities * At 1 April, 1997
1 Highlights of the year ended 31 March 1998
“The National Lottery ● 6,837 charities and community ● We introduced the first Charities Board groups were awarded grants continuous grants programme (NLCB) assessment system is remarkable. during 1997/98, totalling in January 1998, on the theme It is the most £333 million. of Community involvement, determined attempt enabling groups to apply at any that has been seen in ● Britain, and probably A new programme, focusing on time and receive quicker anywhere in the Improving people’s living decisions on grant world, to make environment, was launched in applications. objective grant April 1997. Our call centre making ● decisions...(it) has handled over 33,500 enquiries Pilot schemes for small grants, done so much to and despatched 31,272 between £500 to £5,000, have create the NLCB’s application packs. By the end proved a great success, remarkably high of the year we had awarded enabling 3,668 groups to reputation in the charitable sector” £133 million of grants to receive a total of £9.2 million (Directory of Social 1,306 successful applicants. grants, using a simplified Change, National application system. Lottery Yearbook, ● 1998) Our first grants for UK-based voluntary organisations working ● The Board has led the way in abroad were announced in May the development of a multi- 1997, with £25 million distributor small grants “The completion of these much needed awarded to 130 organisations. scheme in Scotland, Awards repairs has replaced for All, providing a “one stop our previous despair ● In August and September, a shop” for small grant with hope and a spur total of £171 million was applications to the different of new confidence for the future” awarded to 1,762 groups, lottery bodies. (Amlwch and district under our New opportunities scouts and guides) and choices and Voluntary ● In February 1998, we sector development grants introduced the first grants programme. programme specifically for “Always efficient, health and social research helpful and prompt to projects. return calls” (Judith Roberts, The Prince’s Youth ● Demand for grants continues Business Trust) to far outstrip supply. We received 20,283 applications for a total of £1.9 billion during 1997/98 – nearly six times the total that we were able to award.
● We delivered over 690 Children are the future: information seminars across the Wales committee the country, briefing awarded £96,545 to organisations about our enable disadvantaged children to visit the grants programmes and how Mumbles 2000 project. to apply.
2 Looking to the future - the year ahead
● The Small grants scheme extends throughout the UK, from July 1998, giving grass- roots groups a quick and easy route to our funds.
● A new Awards for All pilot scheme in the East Midlands, starting in November 1998, will join the existing pilot scheme in Scotland and pave the way for a nation-wide scheme giving small groups a “one stop shop” for all lottery small grant applications.
● A new grants programme, focused on Poverty and disadvantage, will open in October 1998. Like the Added value: The England committee awarded the Refugee Council £187,236 for a Community involvement training project. programme, this will run continuously with no closing date for applications. supplemented with a new ● Specific programmes covering feedback system giving all Health and social research and unsuccessful applicants International grants will assist general reasons why their UK voluntary organisations applications were working in these fields. unsuccessful.
● We will continue to target our ● As more and more projects work on particular groups of that we have funded near disadvantaged people and completion, we will be stepping specific areas of need in the up our programme of voluntary sector. monitoring and evaluation to judge the scope and impact of “The Charities Board, ● We will publish and consult our grants programmes. vilified by the tabloid widely on our first draft press (and the strategic plan in Autumn 1998, ● We will continue to innovate occasional Tory and seek effective ways of minister) ever since it considering the best use of was launched, has in new powers contained within delivering our core standards fact turned out to be The National Lottery Act 1998. of fairness, equality, efficiency one of the National and quality, and accountability. Lottery’s great success stories” ● Our existing seminars for (Magnus Linklater, The unsuccessful applicants will be Times, 5 June 1997)
3 Chairman’s message
The year to 31 March Consulting with and listening to the wide 1998 has been a range of voluntary and community groups, significant one for the plus representatives of local authorities and National Lottery other grant making trusts, is essential for Charities Board. Our us. Each grants programme is preceded by approach to grant- a round of consultation with the voluntary making now has a new sector. The views of groups with expertise shape with a blend of in particular grants programmes is broad, on-going grants programmes and especially important. specialist programmes with fixed application timetables. We have made it easier for local Consultation also informs the standards of community groups to apply for funds assessment and objectivity that we bring to through our pilot programme for small our grant-making. These are standards that grants. We are pioneering in Scotland the have won praise from many in the grant- first “one stop shop” small grants scheme, making world. We will strive to develop Awards for All, whereby groups can apply to these so that they continue to meet our one body for small grants that would goals of fairness, balance, and efficiency in normally require applications to a number of grant-making. the Lottery distributing bodies. Our independence is vital, not least for the Our new approach to grant-making means thousands of voluntary and community that, for the first time, our main grants groups throughout the country who want to programmes will operate as “continuous” know that their proposals will be considered schemes which are open all the time. without prejudice. Through an independent Applicants are no longer constrained by and objective evaluation of the grant application timetables, they can apply under applications we receive, we aim to help more than one programme, they will hear those at greatest disadvantage in society. the outcome of their application sooner, and the programmes can run for as long as Not all our grants will please everyone. The there is demand. If they are unsuccessful, work of the voluntary sector is too varied for they can re-apply using the reject reasons this to be possible. Sometimes, our grants we will now be feeding back. have incurred the wrath of the tabloid press. Sometimes, it is suggested that we We won’t quite be “open all hours” although should follow the strategies of local our 24 hour application line is, and when I authorities in our grant-making. We will, see the commitment of our staff I however, continue to assess all applications sometimes think we are. We will, though, equally with fairness and objectivity, and bring new flexibility and choices to without fear or favour. applicants enabling them to plan applications to suit their needs. The The Board has liaised closely with the Community involvement programme that Department for Culture, Media and Sport in opened in January 1998 is the first the drafting and progress of the White “continuous” programme. It funds projects Paper and subsequent legislation on the supporting community activities, and also “People’s Lottery”. We were pleased that those making communities safer places in the new measures have reflected many of which to live. the policies that we have adopted since we
4 first operated back in 1995. These include Secretary of State, Chris Smith, has funding revenue projects, being prepared to repeated his government’s support for this award 100 per cent of project costs, and principle. distributing money fairly throughout the UK with budgets based on population weighted In the year ahead, we will continue to put by deprivation indices. our listening and learning into action. For example, we are asked by many The new legislation gives us powers to unsuccessful applicants for feedback on develop our work in a number of important their application. We have been evaluating ways. We have introduced joint working with the best way in which we can provide the other distribution bodies to help feedback for all unsuccessful applications, community groups to secure small grants. and in Autumn 1998 we will be New powers will simplify our administrative implementing a system so that all systems for this type of initiative. We will unsuccessful applicants receive written also have the opportunity to delegate general reasons for our decision. decision-making. Lastly, I want to record my thanks to all Currently all decisions on grants have to be Board members and members of the made by Board members on country grant- advisory panels, in particular the Chairs. I making committees, with applications to the want also to record my thanks, and those of England committee first considered by the whole Board, to the members who regional advisory panels. The new rules retired last year after serving on the Board mean that we will pass the power to make since we began – Graham Bowie, Aideen grants to our regional award committees for McGinley, Linda Quinn, and Chris Woodcock England. – for all their hard work and dedication. I welcome Steve Burkeman, Kay Hampton, For the first time, we will be able to solicit William Osborne and Elisabeth Watkins to applications from eligible organisations. the Board. My thanks also go to our Chief Under the current system, it is sometimes Executive and all our staff, without whose the most deprived areas and groups of expertise we would not have achieved as people who are least likely to apply to us. much as we have. We will use this new power carefully, after comprehensive consultation on our draft strategic plan, which will take place in Autumn 1998.
We believe that lottery grant-giving must be additional to sources of public funding. The distribution of funds to education and David Sieff health schemes through the New Chairman Opportunities Fund will reduce the share of lottery proceeds available to fund charities and community groups through the Board. We support the setting up of the Fund but stress that the principle of additionality must be protected. We are pleased that the
5 Chief Executive’s report
Since we began work in repair, modify and refurbish 174 village 1995 up to 31 March halls and community centres around the 1998, the National country was one example of this twin focus. Lottery Charities Board has awarded 13,915 During 1997/98 we invited applications and grants amounting to announced grants of £128 million for 1,277 over £810 million. The projects aimed at Improving people’s living range and variety of the environment. We also announced grants grants is a reflection of under our already launched programme, the diversity of the UK’s flourishing New opportunities and choices, covering voluntary and community sector which education, training and learning throughout numbers over 500,000 organisations and life. More than £171 million was awarded groups. The sheer size and scope of the to 1,762 groups under this programme. As sector reflects the energy, ideas and needs part of both these programmes, we also that characterise our social landscape. Our invited applications under the theme of grants should be seen in the context of this Voluntary sector development. In response, landscape. We may be the largest general we awarded 784 grants, worth £86.6 grant making body in Europe, but our grants million to fund volunteering and represent less than 2 per cent of the infrastructure development opportunities annual income of the voluntary sector. throughout the voluntary sector.
The volume of applications for our grants We have also been mindful that, whilst continues to outstrip their availability. charity may begin at home, it does not end During 1997/98 we received 20,283 there. The widespread public support for applications under our different grants charitable giving to overseas projects was programmes overall. We had to turn down reflected in the awarding of £25 million of two out of every three applications received. grants to 130 UK-based voluntary This scale of demand places a challenging organisations working abroad in May 1997. responsibility on the Board to assess applications not just with professionalism We have built on the success of our pilot and objectivity, but in ways that can be Small grants scheme which was introduced understood against clearly announced and to give small groups a simplified application transparent criteria. process for grants between £500 and £5,000. The pilot schemes in Wales, We aim to achieve a balance between Scotland, the North East and South West of equity, need and impact, while ensuring that England have resulted this year in 3,668 we meet the needs of particular geographic groups being awarded grants worth £9.2 areas and particular areas of work. Across million. In July 1998 the scheme was our grant-making we aim to direct our extended nation-wide, with some resources to areas and sectors of the modifications to enable even more groups population facing greatest disadvantage. to apply. Small grants are for all kinds of This is reflected in the value of grants going projects and complement the specific focus to different regions. As well as responding of other programmes. to greatest need, we are also seeking to promote wider community benefit. Our During the year we achieved a disruption- award in March 1998 of £9.8 million to free move into new corporate offices. We
6 Cause and effect
are determined to maximise the funds Every grant we award is carefully monitored available for grants and have succeeded in to ensure that it is used effectively. In keeping our operating costs down. In the particular, we monitor details of the number 1997/98 financial year our running costs and type of people helped by each project totalled £22 million representing 6 per cent so that we can be sure we are helping of our total annual income. those at greatest disadvantage.
I want to pay a sincere tribute to all the We have established procedures for staff who have put enormous efforts into monitoring grants. Successful organisations managing our growing workload. We aim to are required to set key tasks for each year continue to improve the service we provide. of the project we are funding. At the end of One example of this is our appointment of each year they complete a self-evaluation an Independent Complaints Reviewer who progress report which is reviewed by our will respond to anybody who is not satisfied grant staff. Subsequent grant payments are with our own handling of a complaint. We dependent on a satisfactory review. This are also reviewing how we can make our self-evaluation and information gathering is processes and procedures more open, and backed up by telephone discussions and we are preparing for the introduction of a sometimes by random visits from grants Freedom of Information Act. staff or specialist assessors.
In the year ahead a second continuous By the end of the year 1997/98 4,000 grant programme, Poverty and monitoring forms had been sent out to disadvantage, will run alongside Community organisations holding grants and nearly involvement and these will form our two three-quarters of these had been returned. main grants programmes. We will continue Of those returned, approximately three- to supplement main programmes which quarters showed that all key tasks had have broad themes, with specialist been completed satisfactorily, and further programmes, such as for UK-based monitoring was required for 12 per cent of voluntary organisations working abroad. We projects. The random sampling visits have also launched, in February 1998, a showed 80 per cent of projects were fully new Health and social research programme satisfactory with 7 per cent requiring further recognising the strength of voluntary sector monitoring. activity in research and the importance attached to it by the general public. It is my belief that, with this blend of specialist and broad themes, we will be able to fulfil our mission of helping those at greatest disadvantage and improving the quality of life in the community.
Monitoring success: Our monitoring discovered that the NFC Foundation driving lesson project exceeded its first Timothy Hornsby year target of assisting 250 disabled youngsters and Chief Executive youngsters at risk of offending.
7 Our grants
We announced grants this year environmental issues in the under two main programmes and community, and those which two specialist programmes. The involved pets and other animals following pages give a breakdown for the benefit of people. It also of where the money went. A list of funded organisations in the sector all grants over £100,000 is seeking to make voluntary and included on pages 32 – 41. community groups more efficient and effective. Application period Main grants programmes ran from April to October 1997 and grants were announced in New opportunities and choices March 1998. and Voluntary sector development. Under these two grants This promoted learning throughout programmes, over £298 million life. It supported learning and was awarded to a total of 3,039 volunteering projects outside the groups across the UK. Funds were formal education system, projects divided between England, Wales, which increased opportunities for Scotland and Northern Ireland on people facing disadvantage, the basis of population weighted projects promoting self-help and by deprivation indices, with a top- those which strengthened the slice for UK-wide projects. Grants voluntary sector. Applications to UK-wide projects under were invited in late 1996 and Improving people’s living grants announced between August environment were announced and October 1997. after 31 March 1998 and are not included in this analysis. Forty per cent of Improving people’s living grants and 23 per environment and Voluntary sector Organisation annual income size cent of funds were awarded to development Forty per cent of grants and 23 organisations with This aimed to help create a good per cent of funds were awarded to annual incomes of place to live for everyone in the organisations with annual under £20,000. Small groups also community. It supported projects incomes of under £20,000. Small benefit from our which tackled homelessness and groups also benefit from under Small grants scheme its effects, which helped address our Small grants scheme.
Organisation annual income size
Size of grant Annual £0-5k 5-20k 20-50k 50-250k 250-1m >1m Total % of Value of % of Income number Grants Grants Total Funded 0-5k 87 133 98 201 4 0 523 17.2 £28,764,105 9.6 5-20k 87 162 176 268 7 0 700 23.0 £40,284,840 13.4 20-50k 13 39 88 311 20 0 471 15.5 £45,434,160 15.2 50-250k 2 37 106 669 56 0 870 28.6 £106,287,139 35.6 250k-1m 0 12 15 243 40 0 310 10.2 £48,527,910 16.3 1m-10m 0 2 9 100 20 0 131 4.3 £21,989,021 7.4 >10m 0 0 0 27 6 1 34 1.2 £7,357,338 2.5 189 385 492 1,819 153 1 3,039 100 £298,644,513 100
8 Geographical spread
UK Wide England Wide 54 grants 99 grants £10,676,670 £16,780,829 3.6% 5.6% £0.18 per capita £0.34 per capita
Scotland North East 291 grants 126 grants £29,884,493 £14,881,777 10.0% 5.0% £5.88 per capita £5.71 per capita
Yorkshire and the Northern Ireland Humber 172 grants 286 grants £13,443,564 £24,374,320 4.5% 8.2% £8.15 per capita £4.85 per capita
East Midlands 208 grants £17,663,295 5.9% £4.28 per capita
Eastern 190 grants £17,780,349 North West 6.0% 334 grants £3.38 per capita £38,213,730 12.8% London £5.54 per capita 322 grants £34,927,950 Wales 11.7% 195 grants £4.98 per capita £17,447,162 5.8% South East £5.98 per capita 323 grants £22,702,442 7.6% West Midlands £2.56 per capita 249 grants £25,143,191 8.4% Grants awarded to UK- £4.78 per capita wide projects under the Improving people’s living environment South West programme are not 190 included in this analysis £14,724,741 as they were awarded 4.9% after 31 March 1998. £3.12 per capita 9 Key
% of grants % of money
Examples of people who will benefit Applicants were asked to indicate which groups of people would benefit most from their project. Children and young people are the single largest group to benefit, with disabled people and people on low incomes also receiving a large proportion of the grants. Many grants go to projects which benefit more than one group. Therefore the figures shown in these tables are approximate.
Beneficiary group Amount £ 0% 5% 10% 15% 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17%
Disabled people 62,781,324
Lone parents 32,088,988
Older people 50,169,146
Homeless people 35,892,498
People on low incomes 103,226,754
People living in the inner city 43,298,915
People living in rural areas 45,768,851
People with physical or mental ill health 40,249,724 Children and young people 106,270,718
Unemployed people 65,785,075
Women and girls 42,420,981
0% 5% 10% 15%
Age of beneficiaries
Age group Amount £ 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Children 0-10 14,754,164
Young people 11-25 39,400,523
Adults 26 - 59 56,748,127
60 plus 8,521,287
All ages 179,220,412
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
10 Ethnicity
Description Amount £ 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
Open to all 254,783,745
African/Caribbean 1,602,828
Black other 6,279,408
Asian other 8,707,740
Indian 503,410
Pakistani 649,288
Bangladeshi 324,753
Chinese 839,684
All minority ethnic groups 19,215,169
Other 5,738,488
Total 298,644,513 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% Type of work
Work Amount £ 0% 5% 5% 10% 10% 15% 15% 20% 20%
Animal care and welfare 874,244
Advocacy 10,633,955
Advice, information provision or counselling 39,147,668 Conservation and environment 8,942,413
Children and youth community services 21,186,912 Development 8,433,496
Financing or resourcing 3,306,821
Community services 26,602,905
Health care 3,936,656
Other 2,288,437
Provision of buildings or facilities 31,625,613
Professional services 2,589,133
Raising awareness 4,171,296
Research 1,355,035
Social care and welfare 22,186,668
Training or learning 65,926,320
Voluntary sector development 45,436,941
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% Total 298,644,513
11 International grants programme
“Getting a grant from In May 1997 we announced our the Charities Board is first grants to UK-based wonderful news. It means that we’ll be organisations working abroad, able to provide with 130 groups receiving a total relevant basic of £25 million. This programme education and practical skills to was targeted at development some of Uganda’s projects that address the causes poorest children who of poverty and inequality and have had to drop out make a significant difference to of formal education... mothers will benefit as the quality of life of some of the well as their most vulnerable people in the children...They’ll be world. The breakdown which helping themselves to follows shows how the money has stand on their own two feet” been used. (Marion Jackson, Marketing Director, During the year we launched our Action Aid.) second international grants programme. The application period closed in January 1998 and grants were announced in June 1998. Our third programme is now open; for further details Ugandan children attending one of 125 see page 28, Grants programmes Action Aid non-formal education centres in in 1998/98. Mubade district
Where our first International grants have been allocated
In addition, a number of projects are working with disadvantaged people in more than one country or region of the world.
12 Parts of the world to benefit Area % of grants % of money
Africa 39.8 41.3
Asia 23.8 18.3
The Caribbean 4 5.4
Central and South America 11 14.9
Central and Eastern Europe 12.7 12.4
UK 7.4 6.8
Other 1.3 0.9
Types of project No of grants Amount £
Improving access to housing, health care, or education 52 9,597,433
Promoting sustainable livelihoods 33 6,075,567
Promoting and/or protecting human rights 14 3,148,261
Assisting non governmental organisations 11 1,983,841
Enhancing understanding of development 8 1,083,651
Enabling disadvantaged people to influence opinion 8 2,134,314
Improving environmental management 4 976,933
Total 130 25,000,000
People who benefit % of grants % of money
Children and young people 18.1 16.6
Disabled people 4.7 2.9
Families 5.9 7.1
Homeless people 2.2 1.5
Lone parents 1.8 3.1
Older people 2.2 1.8
Other 13.0 11.6
People with learning difficulties 0.7 0.4
People on low incomes 19.6 22.4
People with physical or mental ill health 5.1 4.5
Refugees and asylum seekers 1.4 1.3
Victims of crime and abuse 4.3 5.8
Women and girls 21.0 21.0
13 Small grants scheme
During the year we funded 3,668 grass-roots community groups in the pilot areas of Wales, Scotland, the South West and North East regions of England. The grants were for between £500 and £5,000, and in total we awarded £9.2 million. Relatively small amounts of money can make a big difference to local groups; the breakdown which follows shows how.
People who will benefit Applicants were asked to indicate which groups of people would most benefit from their project. Many projects benefit more than one group, therefore these figures are approximate.
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Carers
Children and young people
Disabled people
Families
Homeless people
Lone parents
People at risk of offending/offenders
Older people
Other
People with physical and mental ill health People living in areas of poor housing
People living in the inner city
People with learning difficulties
People on low incomes
People in rural areas
Refugees and asylum seekers
Socially isolated people
Unemployed people
Victims of crime or abuse
Women and girls
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 14 Grants awarded in pilot regions
Pilot region No of grants Amount £ % of grants % of money
North East England 486 1,307,850 13.2 14.2
South West England 1,148 3,241,354 31.3 35.2
Wales 365 887,219 10.0 9.6
Scotland 1,669 3,772,706 45.5 41
Total 3,668 9,209,129 100 100
Type of work Community services for children and young people received the largest proportion of grants and money. Projects funded include, play schemes, youth clubs, Scouts and Guides groups.
Work Amount £ 0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Advice, information provision or counselling 27,457 Advocacy 99,892
Raising awareness 81,596
Children and youth community services 3,460,754
Other community services 2,608,021
Conservation and environment 60,312
Development 44,952
Financing and resourcing 33,432
Health care 238,316
Other 830,782
Provision of buildings or facilities 806,671
Research 30,520
Social care and welfare 493,092
Training and learning 345,356
Voluntary sector development 47,976
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Total 9,209,129
15 Putting lottery funds to work - England
97-98 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR
● 14,272 applications Dogs for the Disabled received, asking for a total of £1.3 billion.
● A total of £231.7 million awarded to 3,961 projects.
● £126.5 million awarded to 1,325 projects under the New opportunities and choices programme; £100.7 million awarded to 1,002 projects under the Improving people’s living environment programme, and £4.5 Furnish Ltd million awarded to 1,634 projects in the North East and South West regions of England under the Small grants scheme.
● Over 600 information Hulme Community Computing seminars and briefings across England. England A total of £231.7 million awarded to 3,961 projects.
Crediton and District Multiple Sclerosis Support Group Kids Club Network
16 Kids Club Network premises and to expand their Profile £454,948 over three years, kennel facilities. The Charities New opportunities and choices Board grant will make both possible. More than 2,000 local kids clubs throughout the country provide safe play and care for over Furnish Ltd (Hammersmith and 100,000 4-12 year olds before Fulham) and after school. This grant £140,673 over three years, means that a special Out of Improving people’s living School Network will be possible, environment creating and supporting local Chair of the England associations of out of school If they get a flat, homeless committee: clubs to exchange and develop people often have nothing to Stella Clarke best practice in this increasingly furnish it with. This can Director for England: important area of children’s jeopardise their tenancy and is a Janet Paraskeva provision. particular problem for vulnerable groups such as those with mental Decisions on grants in England are made by health, alcohol or drug problems the England Crediton and District Multiple as well as the elderly. By committee (see full Sclerosis Support Group providing good quality second- list of members on £3,375, Small grant hand furniture, Furnish makes a page 42). real difference in helping house The committee is Just a small amount of funding the homeless and puts to good advised by nine can give an extra dimension to use items that might otherwise regional advisory the existing activities of local be dumped. panels with up to 13 members each (listed community groups. In Devon, the on page 44). These Crediton MS Support Group panels include people organised an activity weekend for Hulme Community Computing with knowledge of the people with multiple sclerosis, £9,800 over three years, New needs and diversity of together with their families and opportunities and choices each region. carers, giving everybody an While issues such as exciting and fun break with the Having access to and advice on unemployment and help of a small grant. Information Technology, education disability are common and training, can help people gain across England the focus of need may new skills and increase the vary in different Dogs for the Disabled opportunities available to them. regions. Our nine £597,595 over one year, This community drop-in centre regional offices and Improving people’s living improves access to these regional advisory panels aim to make environment facilities for the people of Hulme, sure that grants a deprived area of Manchester reflect those different Dogs can give both where many people from minority needs. companionship and help to ethnic groups live. With the help people with disabilities. This of our grant the group will charity trains specially selected continue to run the service, dogs to assist with practical improve their IT equipment and everyday tasks. But they face an refurbished the centre. urgent need to secure new 17 Putting lottery funds to work - Wales
97-98 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR ● 1,360 applications received, asking for a total of £119 million
● A total of £18.4 million awarded to 560 projects.
● £9.4 million awarded to 100 projects under the New opportunities and choices programme; £8.1 million awarded to 95 projects under the Improving people’s Pennard Afternoon Tea Club Safer Merthyr Tydfil living environment programme; and £900,000 awarded to 365 projects under the Small grants scheme.
● 13 information seminars across Wales, in addition to speaking at many events organised by voluntary groups. Mumbles Science 2000
Talbot Green Neighbourhood Unit Support Group
Wales A total of £18.4 million awarded to 560 projects.
Antur Teifi
18 Mumbles Science 2000 communications and personal Profile £96,545, over two years, New skills. The grant will pay for the opportunities and choices group’s running costs.
Science play schemes during term time and in school holidays Pennard Afternoon Tea Club will bring science and technology £500, Small grants alive for 5-11 year olds in Mumbles. Our grant will mean Getting out and about is an that more children can use the important part of quality of life for scheme by keeping prices low elderly people, especially those and places will also be set aside facing transport difficulties or Chair of Wales for children with special needs. poor health. A small grant can Committee: Tom Jones make all the difference and in Pennard the afternoon tea club Director for Wales: Safer Merthyr Tydfil will be using their grant to pay for Roy Norris
£176,535 over three years, two outings. Were it not for these Decisions about Improving people’s living outings and the activities of the grants in Wales are environment group, many of these elderly made by the Wales ladies would stay isolated in their committee (list of members page 42). More than 100 people every own homes. month contact Safer Merthyr Through the wide Tydfil with worries and questions range of projects we about crime prevention and home Talbot Green Neighbourhood Unit support in Wales a diversity of needs are security. Our funding is helping Support Group addressed. In this group to extend their £2,291, Small grants particular the need for Homesafe project, giving advice building, improving and running meeting and installing better security People with learning difficulties in places for local equipment in the homes of Pontyclun will be getting new communities is an burglary victims, disabled people, opportunities to get their point of important focus, as is the elderly and other vulnerable view across with the purchase of the need to develop a strong and households. a software and computer system. independent voluntary The special system includes a sector throughout voice recognition facility giving Wales. Antur Teifi people with disabilities and £154,918, over three years, New mental illness a chance to opportunities and choices produce a bi-monthly newsletter and contribute to community The information technology affairs. revolution is creating new work and social opportunities. Antur Teifi’s mobile training and exhibition project visits communities in West Wales, offering individuals and groups the chance to gain new IT,
19 Putting lottery funds to work - Scotland
97-98 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR ● 2,725 applications received, asking for a total of £150 million.
● £33.7 million awarded to 1,960 projects.
● £17 million awarded to 177 projects under the New opportunities Community Radio for Skye and choices programme; £12.9 million awarded to 114 projects under the Improving people’s living environment programme; and £3.8 million awarded to 1,669 projects under the Small grants scheme. Quarriers Homes The Swan Trust ● 20 information seminars throughout Scotland in addition to presentations at many events organised by voluntary organisations. Ethnic Enterprise Centre ● Established the pilot Awards for All grants scheme in collaboration with other Lottery distribution bodies.
SPP Pensioners Welfare Society Scotland £33.7 million awarded to 1,960 projects.
20 Quarriers Homes social activity in the city. The Profile £560,697 over three years, Ethnic Enterprise Centre will be New opportunities and choices putting Charities Board funds to use with a programme of training Young homeless people face courses geared towards reducing loneliness and isolation. In poverty through self employment. Glasgow, Quarriers Homes works The courses will have a special with homeless youngsters, some emphasis on ways of passing on of whom literally take things out the skills gained to others within on themselves, through self- ethnic communities. injury. The Charities Board grant will help break the cycle of disadvantage for young homeless SPP Pensioners Welfare Society Chair of Scotland Committee: people. It will pay for befriending £30,000, over three years, Garth Morrison services and provide jobs, Improving people’s living accommodation and training environment Director for Scotland: opportunities. It will also fund John Rafferty specific counselling support for In the forests of rural South West Decisions about young people who injure Scotland commercial logging grants in Scotland are themselves. activities leave a debris of small made by the Scotland committee (list of wood cuttings over the forest members page 42). floor. Local elderly people face Community Radio for Skye high prices for the coal and wood In Scotland we aim to £2,500, Small grant they need to heat their homes. ensure that our grant- making is sensitive to Our grant will enable the SPP needs and issues The feasibility of a radio service Pensioners Group to collect the right across the reflecting the specific cultural and waste by tractor and convert it country by consulting widely with community bi-lingual tradition of the Isle of into fuel logs for sale, helping low organisations and Skye will be explored with the income pensioners and improving statutory agencies. help of a small grant. With a the forest environment at the potential listening audience of same time. around 3,000, the radio station would provide the community with information on local events, help The Swan Trust raise awareness of community £79,995 over three years, issues, as well as promote the New opportunities and choices use of the Gaelic language. The Swan Trust has restored and converted an old fishing vessel in Ethnic Enterprise Centre the Shetland Islands for £105,284 over three years, community use. With the help of New opportunities and choices our grant the Trust will now be able to run specific activities for People from black and other young people, including minority ethnic groups in youngsters with special needs, to Edinburgh can face isolation from build social and interpersonal the mainstream of economic and skills and develop self-esteem. 21 Putting lottery funds to work - Northern Ireland 97-98 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR ● 859 applications received, asking for a total of £96 million.
● A total of £13.4 million awarded to 172 projects.
● £7.5 million awarded to 106 projects under the New opportunities and choices programme, and £5.9 million awarded to 66 projects under the Improving people’s living environment Foyle Down’s Syndrome Trust programme.
● 21 information seminars across Northern Ireland, in addition to presentation at many events organised by Mourne Heritage Trust voluntary sector organisations.
The Speedwell Project Northern Ireland Old People’s Welfare Council
Northern Ireland A total of £13.4 million awarded to 172 projects.
Sunshine Community Playgroup
22 Northern Ireland Old People’s other communities. The grant will Profile Welfare Council pay for staffing, enable the £122,197 over three years, project to cater for under 5s, and Improving people’s living also expand its work through a environment new volunteer unit.
This community development project provides support services Sunshine Community Playgroup for older people throughout and Parent Toddler Group Northern Ireland. The group will £51,120 over three years, use the Charities Board grant to New opportunities and choices help local volunteer groups Chair of Northern become self-sufficient, by The Sunshine Group is a popular Ireland Committee: John Simpson developing and delivering scheme helping parents and effective training in fund raising carers with children aged from 3 Director for skills and money management to 5 years old in Limavady. With Northern Ireland: systems. the help of our grant they will Robin Mullan refurbish their premises and Decisions about extend the range of parenting grants in Northern Foyle Down’s Syndrome Trust classes they offer, including Ireland are made by the Northern Ireland £139,240 over two years, practical sessions on the value of committee (list of New opportunities and choices play. members page 42).
Early learning within the family The range of projects we fund in Northern can make a crucial difference in Mourne Heritage Trust Ireland reflects the developing the speech abilities of £135,275 over three years, diversity of voluntary children with Down’s Syndrome. Improving people’s living sector activity and need across the The right help from parents when environment country. In particular children are young can greatly we recognise the assist their later progress. The The Mourne Mountains form an importance of projects Charities Board grant will mean area of outstanding natural which are open to all members of the that the Trust can offer training to beauty and an important community, projects parents so that they can give the recreational resource for both the based in rural best help to their children. people of Northern Ireland and communities, and visitors. The Mourne Heritage those which help strengthen the Trust has been recently formed voluntary sector. The Speedwell Project and, with the help of Charities £116,624 over three years, Board funding, it will develop a New opportunities and choices Conservation Volunteers and Conservation Breaks programme, Bringing children together from giving people an opportunity to different communities in Northern make a practical contribution to Ireland can help sow the seeds of sustaining and enhancing the reconciliation. The Speedwell area’s environmental and cultural Project gives children the chance heritage. to learn about the environment of the forest and meet children from 23 Putting lottery funds to work - UK and abroad 97-98 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR ● 441 applications received for UK-wide projects, asking for a total of £108 million.
● A total of £10.7 million awarded to 54 UK-wide projects under the New opportunities and National Council on Ageing choices programme.
● A total of £25 million awarded to 130 UK- based voluntary Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy organisations working abroad under the first international grants programme.
● Second international grants programme launched in August 1997. 624 applications received, asking for a total of £138.2 million.
● Grants programme Suzy Lamplugh Trust specifically for Health and social research projects launched in February 1998.
Plan International
Learning Through Landscapes
24 Plan International support for people and families Profile £164,290 over three years, coping with the condition. Very Chair of UK International grant often these volunteers are committee: bereaved parents who have lost Graham Bowie In the Dharmapuri District of children through the disease. Our (until 31 December India, Plan International a UK- funding will help the Jennifer Trust 1997), based charity, is working with expand this volunteer service. local people to tackle the problems of environmental degradation and improve income National Council on Ageing and farming opportunities for a £889,000 over three years, very poor community. The grant New opportunities and choices will help establish local Watershed Development The rapid growth in voluntary Associations who can build the organisations working with older skills to carry on clean water, people has created a shortage of irrigation, and land management skills and resources. This is Amanda Jordan (from 1 January improvements after the grant particularly acute in groups 1998). ends. working with black and ethnic minorities and those seeking to Director of UK and Corporate Planning: combat rural deprivation. Our Gerald Oppenheim Learning Through Landscapes grant is funding a joint initiative £199,020 over three years, by the four national Age Concern Decisions about New opportunities and choices organisations. It will enable local grants for UK-wide projects and for UK- voluntary groups to develop the based voluntary The grounds around school skills and resources by providing organisations working buildings offer recreational, advice, training and information abroad are made by artistic and social opportunities for volunteer groups. the UK committee (list of members page 42). for children. With the help of a Charities Board grant, Learning The committee was Through Landscapes will bring Suzy Lamplugh Trust advised on international grants by parents, businesses and local £136,502 over two years, the international groups together to make better Voluntary sector development advisory panel (list of use of the educational and members page 44). environmental amenities that Telephone helplines are an school grounds can provide. important life-line for young people facing difficulties. But often the range of their needs Jennifer Trust for Spinal means that phoning a single Muscular Atrophy organisation is not enough. The £114,456 over three years, Get Connected free helpline Improving people’s living service will bring together a range environment of groups, including Childline, the Samaritans, Save the Children Befriending by volunteers with and Crime Concern. experience of Spinal Muscular Atrophy can provide a vital 25 Grant-making in action
Information Application Assessment and advice
● We produced and ● In 1997/98 32,549 ● Each application is distributed a range of (+ 7,671 small grants assessed by one of information materials packs sent out by our grants officers. to give potential offices in pilot applicants regions) application ● Applications are information about packs were sent out judged against grant-making, in response to specific programme including leaflets, requests received via criteria, as well as booklets and flyers. our 24 hour criteria to judge the telephone line. organisational, ● Our materials were financial and project available in 12 ● Application packs management languages as well as include details of capabilities of the in Braille, large print, grant criteria and applicant group. on audio tape and as guidance notes on a guide for people completing the ● In some cases, with learning application form. grants officers may difficulties. telephone or visit the ● Application forms are applicant ● Our enquiries lines also available on our organisation for more handled 229,623 web site. information. phone calls. Applications for large ● We received 20,283 and complex projects ● We held over 690 applications for will be assessed in information sessions grants during greater detail. around the UK. 1997/98. ● Recommendations for approval are made to the country committee. In the nine England regions, the lists of approved projects are first considered by regional advisory panels made up of local representatives.
26 Decision-making Follow up and awards
● Final decisions are ● All projects are “I must say it is most made by the relevant monitored to make beneficial to have the country committee. sure the money is opportunity of meeting being used for the an officer from the ● In 1997/98 6,837 intended purpose. Charities Board and to have questions applications were answered in such a successful. ● All groups must keep clear and precise a record of the manner, thank you” (Les Ellis, Director, ● Applicants are project’s progress Kent Association for notified and asked to and achievements the Blind) agree to the Board’s and some projects terms and conditions. are selected for “A joy to work with. monitoring visits. Helpful advice always ● Successful applicants available through the receive their grants, ● If there is a breach of Grant Officer” ranging from £500 to the Board’s terms (Andrew Page, Fairbridge) the largest awards and conditions grants during the year, over may need to be £1m to Shelter and repaid. This is also to ActionAid. the case if a group Depending on the receives duplicate length of the grant, funding from any applicants may other source for the receive their money same project. in stages. ● We evaluate the overall effectiveness of our grants programmes and consider this when designing future programmes.
27 Grants programmes in 1998/99
Main grants programmes Poverty and disadvantage From Autumn 1998 we will be This programme opens in October running two main grants 1998. It supports projects which programmes in parallel on the improve the quality of life of broad themes of Community people and communities who are Involvement and Poverty and disadvantaged by poverty. This disadvantage. There will be no includes projects which: fixed periods of application. ● work with people and families Organisations will be able to on low incomes, those living in apply at times that suit their deprived areas, or at risk of needs. We will be advising poverty applicants, in advance, of our ● target rural as well as urban decision-making schedules so poverty that, if they wish, they can submit ● encourage networking to assist applications in time for particular those in poverty to benefit committee meeting dates. from the advice and assistance of those better off. Community involvement Special grants programmes
Special grants programmes will run alongside our main grants programmes.
Health and social research
This programme supports projects which make a difference to life in local communities, including projects which: ● encourage people to work together and bring people into community life who previously may have been excluded ● For medical research and ● support volunteering and social research projects into community action by health, disability and social individuals as well as care, undertaken by, or on community organisations behalf of, UK charities and ● involve development and voluntary organisations support activities to make ● The research must help meet voluntary and community the needs of those at greatest organisations more efficient disadvantage in society or and effective. improve the quality of life in 28 the community ● Grants between £500 and “The organisation of ● Applications must be made by £5,000. the Small grants scheme is impressive ● 30 October 1998. Grants will The scheme is open in and efficient” be announced in Spring 1999. England, Wales and Northern (Conway and Ireland. (Groups in Scotland Denbighshire branch, Cruse Bereavement International grants programme can apply for small grants Care) under the Awards for All scheme). ● Open for applications at any time.
Awards for All
● An annual programme for UK based agencies working abroad. ● For development projects that address the causes of poverty and make significant improvements in the quality of ● A “one stop shop” for small life of some of the most groups seeking small grants vulnerable people in the world. from different lottery ● Applications must be made by distributors. 29 January 1999. Grants will ● The pilot scheme has operated be announced in Summer in Scotland since April 1998 1999. and will be piloted in the East Midlands from November Small grants scheme 1998. ● It will operate in most parts of the UK by Spring 1999 and will replace the Board’s Small grants scheme.
● For groups with annual incomes of less than £15,000. 29 Our commitments
“Very cooperative and Our corporate goals set out the background. Our Equalities Officer helpful” broad commitments of the Board and an Equality Advisory Group (Richard Greenough, Drive for Youth) (see back cover). We aim for: help put this commitment into ● Equality practice. ● Fairness ● Efficiency and quality Through our register of interests ● Accountability. – all Board members, staff, assessors and member of We put these goals into practice advisory panels are required to in a number of ways: declare any relevant interests under the terms of the Board’s Through our applicants charter – Code of Ethics. The register of we believe everyone has the right declared interests is available for to know the principles on which public inspection by writing to the we base our grant-making. We Director of Personnel and publish an Applicants’ Charter Administration. stating what applicants can expect from us. We are Through monitoring and committed to fairness, evaluating our services – we accessibility, openness and to monitor the effectiveness of our practice equal opportunities in all services in a number of ways. At aspects of grant-making. Our aim the enquiry level, all calls and is always to be courteous and letters are monitored by enquiries helpful and to be efficient in our officers with monthly reports responses to letters and reviewed by a senior officer. enquiries. Regular reports are sent to Board members to inform them about Through our equal opportunities views and reactions to our policy and practice – we seek to policies. The consistency and ensure that information about our fairness of assessment work is available to all people and procedures is kept under review publish information in a range of by a Performance and Verification languages and formats, including Officer who also contributes to Braille, large print and audio tape. wider work on performance We are positively committed to indicators and evaluation. equal opportunities in our grant- making and within the Board. We Through our complaints “The Board has been have published a Code of Practice procedures – we publish a clear flexible...This on Equal Opportunities. We want procedure to make it easy for understanding has to ensure that no-one receives applicants or other members of helped us to make the right decisions in less favourable treatment on the public to register complaints. the long term within grounds of sex, race, colour, We have also appointed an the spirit and ethnic origin, disability, sexuality, Independent Complaints Reviewer objectives of this religious belief or political to review any complaints that important project” (Stuart Whant, opinion, age, marital status, cannot be resolved through the ASPIRE) economic status, or social Board’s internal procedures;
30 contact details are available from and countries piloting the Small “Our dealings with all Charities Board offices. During grants scheme sent out 7,671 the Board have been excellent. It has 1997/98 we handled 229,623 application packs.The number of always been easy to phone calls and 32,549 requests formal complaints dealt with access the right for application packs. The regions was 27. person in the event of queries. Helpful guidance has always been forthcoming” (Susan Watkin, Chair, Huntingdon’s Disease Listening and learning Society)
We place great emphasis on preceded by a specific round of consulting, listening and learning. consultation with groups and It is vital that, whilst our grant bodies who have particular strategies and decisions are expertise or insights into the made independently, they are subject area of the programme. informed by the views, We also conduct wider experiences and insights of consultations periodically to voluntary organisations help determine the overall themselves, the public, and shape of our grants strategy. government bodies, both local and national. We seek to achieve ● Through research into general this in a number of ways: public opinion. As well as engaging in direct ● Through the composition of dialogue with the members of the Board and our the public who contact us, we committees. conduct regular focus Our committees and regional discussion sessions with Making a point: advisory panels are composed members of the public in A voluntary sector of people from all walks of life different parts of the UK. consultation meeting. with experience of a range of social, economic and local issues.
● Through dialogue with grant applicants. We run regular programmes of dialogue with grant applicants and potential applicants. These provide a two-way opportunity – for applicants to learn about our policy and practice and for us to hear their views.
● Through specific consultation. Each grant programme is
31 Grants of £100,000 and over
The financial directions issued by the Secretary of State require us to include in our Annual Report a complete list of grants of £100,000 and over made during the financial year. A full list of all grants awarded during the year is available on request from our Enquiries Team, telephone 0171 747 5229.
Breast Cancer Care £137,659 England-wide Genetic Interest Group £130,100 CHAR - The Housing Campaign for Single People £127,802 Shelter £1,106,991 Action for ME £125,705 Dogs for the Disabled £597,595 Parenting Education and Support Forum £124,298 Centrepoint Soho £487,500 Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade £119,325 Kids' Clubs Network £454,948 Directory of Social Change £117,696 Development Trusts Association £399,783 Federation of Worker Writers and Publishers £117,000 National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service £395,575 Horticultural Therapy £114,775 Groundwork Foundation £384,228 Institute of Race Relations £112,936 Anchor Trust £370,000 SITRA £109,855 Michael Elliott Trust £339,351 Child Bereavement Trust £106,906 Rape Crisis Federation £338,785 Spinal Injuries Association £106,831 Women in Prison Charitable Trust £315,105 Health Action for Homeless People £106,644 Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) £312,469 National Institute for Social Work £100,841 Alcohol Concern £288,899 Network of Access and Child Contact Centres £288,502 Race Equality Unit £275,400 National Federation of Women's Institutes £269,582 England, East Midlands DIAL UK £265,000 National Star Centre for Disabled Youth £250,000 Community Living Action Group (Clag) £386,853 NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) £237,900 Hinckley Area Council of Churches Work-Link Project £351,380 Windsor Fellowship £225,000 Gainsborough Adventure Playground Association £349,719 Afiya Trust £223,935 Nottingham Help the Homeless Association Limited £291,713 National Federation of Community Organisations £215,746 Derby Asian Women's Training Association Limited £254,000 Prince's Trust - Action £199,350 Mansfield Council for Voluntary Service £250,955 National Federation of Youth Action Agencies £197,360 Sherwood Coalfield Community Foundation £245,220 Newham Asian Women's Project £197,057 Northamptonshire People First Limited £242,197 The Foundation for After School Activities £196,000 Environ Trust Limited £239,038 Refugee Action £195,297 Northampton Door to Door Service £234,150 Catholic Housing Aid Society (CHAS) £195,279 Leicester Mediation Service £231,000 Empty Homes Agency £194,000 The Out House Project £228,690 Big Step £193,502 Asian Women's Project £220,000 Asian Health Agency £191,787 Co-Operative College Trust £219,471 Law Centres Federation £188,244 South Derbyshire Council for Voluntary Service £212,961 Housing 21 £187,516 Belgrave Playhouse £200,309 British Refugee Council £187,236 Northamptonshire Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance £199,810 Advance Housing and Support £185,836 Ecoworks (Nottingham) Limited £199,772 Blue Cross £180,421 Warsop Vale Residents Action Group £198,380 Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants £180,000 Voluntary Action Rutland £197,500 Housing Associations Charitable Trust £180,000 Leicester Family Service Unit £196,898 Akina Mamawa Afrika £171,795 Newlink Project Limited £195,285 Family Rights Group £171,138 Erewash Voluntary Action £187,939 RSA £171,000 The Friends of Leicester City Farm Limited £185,876 The Dyslexia Institute £169,979 Ollerton & Boughton Womens Centre £185,723 Shared Care UK £165,885 Derby Bosnia-Herzegovina Community Association £183,748 Home Farm Trust £162,963 Step Forward Educational Trust Limited £180,000 North Derbyshire Women's Aid £162,329 Nottingham Play Forum Limited £177,550 Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy £150,000 Boston District Volunteer Bureau £176,518 Link Centre for Deafened People £147,509 Leicester South Fields College £174,066 Action for Dysphasic Adults £147,348 Enable Housing Association £171,296 Community Development Foundation £146,008 Womens Aid Leicestershire Limited £166,413 Working Group Against Racism in Childrens Resources £145,540 LINKS (Chesterfield and N E Derbyshire CVS) £165,240
32 Chase Action Group Limited £157,500 Thurrock Play Network £175,889 Saffron Under 8's Forum £157,051 Christian Family Care £175,000 Corby Furniture Turnaround Project £156,317 Chalgrave Memorial Hall £174,613 Louth and District Volunteer Bureau £155,816 Guideacres Development Fund - The Guide Association £170,000 Hallmark Community Housing Association Limited £154,715 St Leonard's Playgroup £168,052 First Data Training £154,479 North Hertfordshire Council for Voluntary Service £163,800 Community Action Network £152,313 Serving the Homeless £163,000 Lincoln Area Council for Voluntary Service £150,000 INCLUDE £160,273 Hinckley and Area Volunteer Bureau £149,984 Diocese of St Albans Community Project £160,114 Derby Council for Voluntary Service Limited £148,763 Harpenden School for Parents £155,743 The Birchwood Access and Training Centre £148,490 West Norfolk Deaf Association £153,985 Voluntary Action Leicester £147,931 Peterborough Association for Detatched Youth Work £153,500 Charnwood Racial Equality Council £146,324 Hoxne Village Hall £153,198 Nottingham Dyslexia Association £145,375 Rights: The Luton Tuc Centre for the Unemployed £150,783 Wellingborough Volunteer Bureau £143,135 Voluntary Action Luton £150,656 Leicestershire Community Projects Trust £141,930 Julian Housing Support £149,386 Derby Mediation Services Limited £139,552 Watford Domestic Violence Intervention Project £148,762 Langley Mill and Aldercar Community Resource Centre £135,500 Watford and Three Rivers Mediation Service £147,350 Derbyshire Trust for Action on Housing and Homelessness £134,539 New Bedfordshire Training Project £147,139 Stonebridge City Farm £134,376 Cambridge Online City £136,000 Care and Repair (West Leicestershire) Limited £133,376 Redundancy Advice Network £135,915 Northampton Volunteer Bureau £132,343 Mental Health Volunteer Scheme £132,978 Chesterfield Law Centre £131,894 Parents First ! £132,277 Age Concern Derbyshire £131,097 Suffolk Association for the Care Offenders £131,845 Nottinghamshire People's Housing Association £130,442 Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service £131,356 South Northants Volunteer Bureau £123,799 Centre 81 £131,000 Woodhouse Road Family Life Centre £121,543 West Suffolk Befriending Scheme £129,467 The Nottingham Foundation for Music and Media £120,720 Family Support Centre £127,297 Third Wave Initiative Limited £120,000 Hockley Public Hall £127,000 Disjointed Limited £118,707 Hospitaller Order of St John of God £125,931 SAIL £117,632 The Bedfordshire Rural Land Bank Trust £124,958 Corby Accommodation Project £115,370 St Edmundsbury Area Mediation Service Limited £124,056 Blaby District Council for Voluntary Service £114,007 Great Bardfield Pre School £123,206 Youth Clubs Leicestershire £112,287 Peddars Way Care £123,191 Northamptonshire Voluntary Sector Training Group £110,757 Harlow Citizens Advice Bureau £115,403 Skegness and District Volunteer Bureau £109,106 Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service £114,882 South Holland Volunteer Bureau £105,000 Fakenham Children's Daycare Centre £113,670 Broxtowe Crossroads Limited £101,323 Hamilton Lodge Trust £112,391 Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind £110,000 Watford Council for Voluntary Service £104,543 St Louis Family Service £101,900 England, Eastern Redbourn Village Hall £101,725 Luton Crime Reduction Programme £100,698 Southend Association of Voluntary Services £466,000 Ipswich Women's Aid £455,486 North Bedfordshire Council for Voluntary Service £450,653 Women's Employment Enterprise and Training Unit £430,000 England, London Winter Comfort for the Homeless £400,000 Hertsmere Worknet £392,424 Newham Women's Training and Education Centre £404,905 Stevenage Youth Training Scheme Limited £369,000 Wandsworth Volunteer Bureau £372,555 Mid Suffolk Voluntary Organisations Forum £361,045 Home Improvement Project Training and Development Ltd £355,091 Age Concern Norfolk £340,496 Bromley Centre for Voluntary Services £350,000 Gladstone District Community Association £300,545 St Georges Church Hanworth Middlesex £350,000 The Meadows Project £269,240 Star Centre Hounslow £333,080 Ramgarhia Gurdwara Society £246,400 Meanwhile Gardens Community Association £302,290 Great Yarmouth and Waveney MIND £219,969 Newham Community Renewal Programme £300,000 Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations £219,710 The Church Road Training Shop £298,324 Orwell Mencap - Genesis Workshop £213,395 Merton Voluntary Service Council (MVSC) £298,187 Eastern District Of The Workers Educational Association £209,736 Hyde Charitable Trust £281,967 Inter Act (Chelmsford) Ltd £197,556 Kairos Community Trust £281,500 The Benjamin Foundation £190,000 Southwark Action for Voluntary Organisations (SAVO) £281,197 Colchester Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society £188,108 Highbury Vale Blackstock Trust £269,825 Orton Community Transport Association £187,545 Riverpoint Limited £250,000 Colchester Women's Aid £187,054 Waltham Forest Young Peoples Housing Project £241,185 North Bedfordshire Age Concern £186,322 Wandsworth and Merton Legal Resource Project £238,161 Age Concern Peterborough £186,258 London Voluntary Sector Training Consortium £229,848 Cambridge Women's Resources Centre £183,748 Claudia Jones Organisation £227,447 Camphill Village Trust £183,000 Cities in Schools Brent £216,868 Castle Project Print Finishers Co-Operative Limited £182,500 Cities in Schools Westminster £216,868 Scope £181,888 Hillingdon Association of Voluntary Services £216,787 Norwich Young Men's Christian Association Limited £181,263 Hounslow Voluntary Sector Forum £214,302
33 Voluntary Sector Resource Agency, Hammersmith & Fulham £209,293 Women's Design Service £145,135 Blythe Neighbourhood Council £206,142 Hackney Women's Aid £144,182 Trinity Community Centre £201,091 Enfield Racial Equality Council £143,788 Rape Counselling and Research Project £199,868 London Action Trust £142,869 Tower Hamlets Youth Counselling Service £199,233 Pulross Area Playgroup Association £142,275 Refugee Arrivals Project £198,671 Furnish Ltd (Hammersmith & Fulham Community Store) £140,673 Asian Deaf Women Association £197,746 Southwark Co-operative Development Agency £140,235 Brent Volunteer Bureau Limited £196,407 Haringey Irish Cultural and Community Centre £140,000 Deptford Supplementary Learning Project £195,639 Hackney Pakistan Women's Welfare Centre £138,664 Kuumba Educational Project £194,586 Hampden Community Association of Somers Town £137,257 International Social Service of the United Kingdom £193,337 St Andrew's Centre £136,464 Stopover Lewisham Limited £192,572 Islington Volunteer Centre £135,909 Kokayi Supplementary School £189,598 Community Accountancy Project £135,280 Hackney Action for Racial Equality £189,077 The Incorporated Mansfield House University Settlement £134,993 Outset Limited £188,377 Bethnal Green Youth Consortium £133,959 Alcohol Recovery Project £188,082 Tottenham Legal Advice Centre £132,200 Islington Voluntary Action Council £187,583 Magic Me £130,808 Lambeth Women's Aid Limited £187,375 Newham Leisure Link £130,578 Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Westminster House Youth Club £129,263 Laos & Cambodia £187,000 Tamil Refugee Centre £125,970 Stratford Community Forum £186,939 National Council for the Welfare of Prisoners Abroad £124,620 Homeless Families Campaign £186,756 Homeless Action in Barnet Ltd £123,738 Community Organisations Forum (Tower Hamlets) £186,358 Sands End Adventure Playground £122,939 Voluntary Action Lewisham £186,117 Groundwork Southwark £121,022 Kensington and Chelsea Mencap £185,922 Alcohol Counselling and Prevention Services £120,138 Jamait-Al-Nissa £185,769 Project Fullemploy £120,000 Women's Education in Building Limited £185,362 Kurdish Community Centre £120,000 Good Neighbours in Silwood Scheme £184,542 Welcare Service for Parents and Children £119,627 APA Community Drug and Alcohol Initiatives £184,091 Women's Training Link £119,407 Lionel Jeffrey Nubian Centre £184,027 Penta Housing Limited £118,527 London Voluntary Service Council £182,594 Iranian Association £118,114 London Black Women's Health Action Project £180,541 National Newpin £118,049 Parents Centre £180,000 Alpha Grove Community Trust £117,549 East Thames Housing Group £179,367 Disabled Muslim Women Association £117,410 Race on the Agenda £177,664 Camden Alcoholics Support Association £116,796 Haringey Refugee Consortium £177,596 Merton Voluntary Association for the Blind £115,364 St Cuthbert's Centre £176,498 Islington Enterprise Agency Limited £113,414 Londons Women's Aid £173,804 North Lewisham Law Centre Ltd £111,548 African/Caribbean Users and Survivors Forum £173,615 Noam Hatorah £111,292 The Triangle Adventure Playground Association £172,230 Key South Housing £111,272 St Giles Trust £171,742 Southwark Community Care Forum £109,802 Age Concern Tower Hamlets £170,620 ASHA Asian Women's Aid £109,143 Creative and Supportive Trust Limited £170,561 Greenwich Mediation £109,057 999 Club Trust £165,380 Newham Action Against Domestic Violence £107,810 Kentish Town City Farm Limited £165,000 Conservation and Urban Ecology £107,150 Evelyn Oldfield Unit £165,000 Croydon Voluntary Action £106,277 The Londons Hazards Centre Trust Ltd £164,561 St Mungo Community Housing Association Ltd £104,873 Advice Services Alliance £163,607 Ethiopian Advice and Support Centre in Age Concern Wandsworth £162,690 Hammersmith and Fulham £104,400 The HIV Project £162,077 Horwood Estate Bangla School £103,878 Independent Activities Project £161,493 Youth Information Shop £103,272 Yad Voezer Helping Hand Society £159,465 Abney Park Cemetery Trust £102,873 Islington Zairean Refugees Group £159,287 The Church Council of St Johns Hackney and Newham Children's Information Service £158,046 St James Clapton £102,000 New Cross Circle Project £157,856 Focus E15 £101,750 South London Family Service Unit £157,752 Enfield Parents Centre £101,543 Lewisham Voluntary Sector Training Network £157,000 The Bonnington Centre Community Association £101,000 North Kensington Opportunities Centre £156,000 Vauxhall City Farm Limited £100,314 Pragati Asian Women's Association of Haringey £155,543 Shortstop Housing Project £100,000 Green Adventure £155,102 Heathcote Education Trust £100,000 Refugee Women's Association £152,645 Central Eltham Youth Project £151,260 Greenwich Housing Rights Ltd £151,069 Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum £150,000 England, North East World University Services (UK) £148,724 Play Training Project £148,269 Waddington Street Centre Limited £417,090 Harrow Association for Disability £148,210 Durham Rural Community Council £380,030 Kingston and District Welcare Association £148,073 Community Help and Neighbourly Care for Everyone £348,851 Kings Cross Furniture Project £146,899 Workers Educational Association £344,614 Milton House Trust £146,658 Pele Tower Project £294,490 North London ITEC £146,331 Sunderland Voluntary Sector Partnership Consortium £292,839
34 West Durham Groundwork Trust £280,432 Voluntary Service £437,124 Tyne and Wear Black Housing Project £276,885 Salford/Trafford Groundwork Trust Limited £431,305 Richard Hind Centre Community Association £272,159 The Stricklandgate House Trust Limited £431,150 Choppington Social Welfare Centre £265,000 The Coppice Neighbourhood Group £425,362 North Benwell Black Residents Support Group £248,944 Bootle Citizens Advice Bureau £415,328 Young Women's Christian Association Sunderland £239,932 Age Concern Wigan Borough £410,631 Cleadon Community Project £214,186 Triangle Trust £360,041 Stockton Residents and Community Groups Association £212,611 Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project Society Limited £328,953 The Cleveland Domestic Violence Forum £199,881 Age Concern Bolton £320,000 Gateshead Access Panel £199,170 The Samaritans of Liverpool and Merseyside £320,000 Derwentside MIND £197,790 Liverpool Personal Service Society Inc (PSS) £315,640 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Council for Voluntary Service £197,254 Chorlton Workshop £301,130 North Tyneside Voluntary Organisations Staining Development Association £300,000 Development Agency £193,571 Community Regeneration Company £295,685 Southwick Neighbourhood Youth Project £190,727 SMART Charitable Trust £280,000 Wansbeck Citizens Advice Bureau £190,189 Furniture Resource Centre Ltd £280,000 Wingate and Station Town Family Centre £187,000 Belle Vale Adventure Playground £277,764 The Willington Team Parish £183,378 Blackpool Citizens Advice Bureau £275,000 Single Homeless Action Initiative in Derwentside £182,032 Voluntary Action Tameside £266,686 Coatham House £180,427 Progress Trust £260,254 Gateshead Voluntary Organisation Council £179,501 Congleton Council for Voluntary Service £255,165 Earth Balance Limited £179,484 High Lane War Memorial Village Hall £250,000 Avenues £174,332 Frontline Community Project £250,000 Hartlepool Voluntary Development Agency £173,456 Marshfield Bank Residents Association £250,000 Banks of the Wear Limited £167,123 Bury Metro Council of Voluntary Service £246,780 Norcare Limited £166,843 The Chester Link £231,757 Arthurs Hill Asian Residents Association £165,744 Ashiana Housing Association £201,155 Teesside Play and Education Resource Centre £165,742 Riverside Housing Association £200,000 Durham Rural Community Council £161,550 The Charles Wootton College for Further Education £199,715 St John's Parochial Church Council £158,783 Croxteth Child Development Service £198,337 Derwentside Women's Aid Ltd £157,817 Cumbria Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service £197,941 Arthurs Hill Asian Residents Association £153,025 Women's Refuge (Wirral) £197,840 Teesside Rent Guarantee Scheme £151,717 Garston Urban Village Hall £195,800 Age Concern Newcastle-upon-Tyne £151,399 Groundwork Rochdale, Oldham and Tameside £195,702 Fence Houses YMCA £148,782 Fylde Coast Women's Refuge £195,439 Northumberland Association for Visual Handicap £147,160 West Cumbria Groundwork Trust £195,000 Community Learning and Enterprise Opportunities £145,437 Bolton Association and Network of Drop ins £194,340 Wansbeck Accessible Transport £144,215 Paws For Kids £194,170 The Botanic Centre (Middlesbrough) Limited £143,842 Afro-Caribbean Project Oldham £193,828 Age Concern Durham County £137,722 Sylhet Tigers Club £192,828 Kirknewton Village Hall Committee £135,000 Leigh Citizen Advice Bureau £191,849 Northern Advisory Group on Disability £131,437 Moss Side and Hulme Women's Action Forum £191,340 East Durham Community Transport £130,868 Dee Venture Sea Scout Unit £190,486 Search Project £128,017 Liverpool Community Learning Network £189,183 Darlington Young Men's Christian Association £127,963 Cumbria Deaf Association £187,600 Loftus Development Trust £127,471 Breckfield and North Everton Neighbourhood Council £187,260 St Cuthberts Church Benfieldside £124,774 Lancaster Citizens Advice Bureau £187,250 Playworks £122,821 Whalley Range Community Development Project £185,489 Spennymoor Youth and Community Association £121,519 Serve Wirral Trust Co Ltd £185,454 Northumberland Castles £121,284 Integration (UK) £185,000 Millers Dene Family Centre £119,748 Lords House Farm Special Needs Centre £184,792 Wansbeck Council for Voluntary Service £118,361 Rochdale Racial Equality Council £184,467 The Gateshead out of School Network £114,558 MIND in Manchester £184,216 East Durham Play Network £114,431 Voluntary Organisations in Social Work Education £183,702 Mediation in North Tyneside £112,346 Maritime Community Development Agency £183,265 Tahzeeb Project £111,188 Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation £183,018 Sunderland Support for Parents with Disabilities £110,020 Maa Aur Bachay £181,881 European Social Fund Voluntary Organisation Northern £105,620 Great Sutton Village Hall £181,386 Sunderland Volunteer Bureau £104,474 Oldham Community Accountancy Service £180,561 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Council for Voluntary Service £103,786 Liverpool Social Partnership in Drugs Prevention £180,490 East Cleveland Employment and Training Group Limited £101,994 Northern Education and Resettlement Information Services £179,843 Northumberland Wildlife Trust £100,352 Cancer Help Preston Limited £178,806 Bendrigg Trust £178,364 The Wirral Council for Voluntary Service £175,758 Fazakerley Carers Support Scheme £174,452 England, North West Action Factory Community Arts Limited £171,767 St. Luke's Parochial Church Council £170,884 Salterbeck Alliance for Community Enterprise £628,000 Voluntary Action Manchester £170,790 Croxteth Gems Community Association £520,119 Manchester Community Information Network £170,328 Platt Bridge Youth Enterprise Training £466,750 Speke Training and Education Centre £170,120 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Council for Jinnah Alfred Street Day Care Centre £170,061
35 Forum Housing Association £170,047 Speke-Garston Mini-Bus Agency £111,890 The Federation of Local Supported Living Groups £167,629 The Village Charity £109,612 Groundwork Manchester £167,271 Bury Metro Council of Voluntary Service £109,540 North Manchester Jewish Youth Project £166,605 Liverpool Community Rights £108,946 British Red Cross Merseyside Branch £166,200 Lancaster District Council for Voluntary Service £108,041 Raffles Youth Development Project £164,239 The Willows Resident and Community Board £107,073 Petrus £163,190 Sefton Council for Voluntary Service £107,029 The Bridge Project £162,720 Ariel Trust Ltd £106,857 Add a Voice £162,619 Tameside Association of Community Organisations £106,113 Gautby Road Play and Community Centre £162,410 The Community Council of Lancashire £105,750 Tameside Education Business Partnership £162,088 Nigerian Community Association £105,250 Community Technical Aid Centre £161,766 Toxteth Citizens Advice Bureau £104,763 Nightsafe Limited £161,744 Community Transport and Care Training £104,760 Amberswood Environmental Services Limited £161,050 Wirral SEN Parent Partnership £104,252 South Liverpool Personnel £160,457 Billinge Youth and Community Enterprise Project £103,169 Cities in Schools Wirral £160,273 Formby and District Citizens Advice Bureau £100,619 Groundwork East Lancashire £160,179 Hyde Bangladeshi Youth Organisation £100,577 Play and Resource Centre in Knowsley £160,000 Elimu Study School £100,264 Old Trafford Rights Centre £158,645 Brain and Spinal Injury Charity £100,000 Creative Support Ltd £156,769 Lancashire Council for Voluntary Youth Services £156,167 The Greenbank Project £155,412 Council for Voluntary Service West Lancashire £155,407 England, South East Key to the Door £154,714 St John the Evangelist Parochial Church Council £154,500 Canterbury Open Christmas £485,318 Blackburn Racial Equality Council £153,634 Rehabilitation Trust for Oxfordshire Re Employment Limited £409,432 Lifeshare Limited £152,435 Beneficial Foundation £336,495 The Elm Tree Family Centre £152,419 The Fellowship of St Nicholas £314,156 Landlife £152,011 Isle Of Wight Mencap £302,500 Garston One Stop Shop Consortium £151,811 Kent Rural Community Council £272,281 Cycling Project for the North West £151,391 Kemp Town Crypt Trustees £258,300 Egerton out of School Club Limited £151,361 Society of St Dismas £229,030 St George's Bicentenary Parish Centre Fund £150,000 Crawley Open House £226,777 Community 200 £150,000 Crawley and Horsham Home Start £218,015 Rachel House Trust £149,664 South Kent Council for Voluntary Service £200,000 Face to Face (Homelessness Project) £149,134 Learning Links £198,110 Friends of Liverpool Early Years Centre £148,634 Medway Council for Voluntary Service £195,870 Cleggs Lane Community Nursery and Training Centre Ltd £148,090 Age Concern West Sussex £195,564 Botcherby Residents Action Group £145,419 Community Council for Berkshire £193,340 Rice Lane City Farm £144,136 Sofas and Stuff £190,600 Halton YMCA Limited £142,650 Southampton Environment Centre Limited £188,759 Salford Womens Employment and Resource Group £142,441 Countryside Education Trust £188,119 RVA Opportunities for Women Ltd £141,918 Slough Race Equality Council £182,493 Great Lever Community Association £140,602 Age Concern Romsey and District £180,600 Haslingden Community Forum £138,000 1st Durrington Scout Group £175,000 West Cumbria Trades Hall Centre £137,974 London and Quadrant Housing Trust £175,000 Merseyside Jewish Representative Council £137,750 Eastleigh Community Services £173,742 Pendle Pakistan Welfare Association £137,747 Community Youth Association £173,510 North West Network £137,615 Milton Keynes Homeless Persons Enterprises £168,750 Liverpool and Lancashire Autistic Society £137,564 South Downs Council for Voluntary Service £168,491 Granby Toxteth Activity Club £137,439 Energy Conservation and Solar Centre £165,367 St Paul's C of E Church,Stalybridge £137,000 St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs Church £163,000 Kids in Need and Distress £132,595 Island Volunteers £161,633 Gatehouse Publishing Charity £132,224 Fareham Council of Community Service Ltd £160,219 Carlisle Aid for Women £131,985 Oxfordshire Mental Health Matters £158,298 Manchester Womens Aid 2 £131,800 Canterbury Youth Project at the Wincheap Centre £156,807 Friends of Guiding, Smithy Green £130,000 The Grimsbury Agewell Club £153,802 Voluntary Action Cumbria £129,978 The Frant Memorial Hall £150,000 Ethnic Minority Health Forum £128,625 Thanet Volunteer Bureau £149,773 Manchester Refugee Support Network £128,202 Leigh Park Community Development Workers Sefton Neighbourhood Initiative Project £126,817 Management Group £149,560 Granby Community Mental Health Group £125,144 Canterbury and Thanet Council for Voluntary Service £149,242 Lancashire Disability Information Federation £123,374 Winchester District Council of Community Service £147,825 University of Manchester £123,112 Reading Voluntary Action £147,594 St Helens Opportunity for Play £121,841 Off the Record £146,143 Merseyside Federation of Victim Support Schemes £121,794 Robsack Community Group £145,478 Voluntary Action Cumbria £121,505 Bailey Housing Association £144,315 Greater Manchester Play Resources Unit £117,119 East Kent Rape Line £141,325 Pike View Animal Rescue £117,092 East Sussex County Scout Council £141,000 Brinnington Community 2000 £116,300 1st Lightwater Scout Group £140,000 Speke Children's Environment Committee £112,645 WEA South Eastern District £139,417
36 WEA Thames and Solent £137,656 Keyham Community Association £141,410 Sussex Association for the Rehabilitation of Offenders £133,834 Home Start Bournemouth £140,500 Sanctuary Housing Association £132,217 Bath Environment Centre £137,873 Oxford Housing Rights Centre Limited £129,345 The Ceed (Charity) Limited £136,983 Slough Council for Voluntary Service £128,129 St Pauls Area Community Enterprises Limited £136,080 Home Start Butser £128,089 Self Help Community Housing Association £130,362 Carers Together in Hampshire £127,450 Luxulyan Village Hall Management Committee £129,500 Milton Keynes Women and Work Group £125,520 Young Women with Children Project £127,223 Dysons Wood Trust £125,201 Real Home Care Trust £126,886 Wallingford Coach for the Disabled (Elizabeth) £125,000 The Harbour Centre £125,286 Medway Citizens Advice Bureau £124,755 Plymouth Access to Housing £120,557 Eastbourne Citizens Advice Bureau £123,702 Barnabas Spastics Society £120,000 Havant and District Toy Library £123,438 Rockwell Green Village Hall £119,074 Rainbow Centre for Conductive Education £122,016 Cheltenham Centre for Unemployed People £117,339 Reading Council for Racial Equality £121,950 Saint Aldates Environmental Trust £116,485 Reading Single Homeless Project £121,644 West Devon Environmental Network £116,204 Sussex Emmaus £120,000 Westmorland Development Trust Limited £115,302 West Sussex Voluntary Organisations Liaisons Group £118,047 The Wheels Project £115,231 Eastbourne Citizens Advice Bureau £116,991 The Throwleigh Centre for the Young People £112,150 The Dawes Community Association £116,921 Totnes and District Community Project £110,000 World Wide Land Conservation Trust £107,862 South Devon Women's Refuge £105,820 South Bucks Volunteer Bureau £105,647 In Touch Youth Counselling Service £104,125 The St Peter and St James Charitable Trust £105,500 Penzance Women's Aid £103,980 Hampshire and Isle Of Wight Youth Options £103,465 Percy Community Association £103,916 Age Concern Waterside £102,524 Hartcliffe, Withywood and Highridge Mental Health Forum £103,799 Banbury Young Homelessness Project £102,507 Northern Devon Council for Voluntary Service £101,247 Adur Special Playscheme £101,999 Southampton Children's Play Association £101,072 Surrey Users Network £100,967 Berkshire Disability Information Network £100,363 England, West Midlands Age Concern East Sussex £100,101 Milton Keynes World Development Education Centre £100,060 Lichfield and District CVS £557,495 Coventry Cyrenians Ltd £450,052 St Martin's Youth Centre £440,434 Workers Educational Association West Mercia District £433,534 England, South West Birmingham Rathbone Society £367,978 Resettlement Project North Staffordshire Ltd £365,000 Workers Educational Association South West District £353,463 Highgate Projects Limited £353,752 West of England Centre for Integrated Living £300,474 The Birmingham Settlement £352,717 Windmill Hill City Farm Limited £280,000 Greenwood Trust £311,616 Gloucester Unemployed Community Resource Centre £249,089 Droitwich Spa and Rural Council for Voluntary Service £306,230 Knightstone Charitable Housing Limited £249,000 Orbit Housing Association £297,205 Council for Voluntary Service North Wiltshire £224,017 Valley House Association £261,500 Pentreath Industries Limited £222,330 Birmingham Retirement Council £253,937 The Ockment Centre Association £221,477 Acquired Aphasia Trust £245,500 Devon Furniture Forum £202,143 Mencap Management (Herefordshire) Limited £235,371 Plymouth Citizens Advice Bureau £194,148 Friends of Perry Common £230,000 Greek Orthodox Community of Bristol £193,000 Wyre Forest Women's Aid £226,120 St Lawrence Trust £192,686 Nuneaton and Bedworth Doorway £215,517 Gloucester Centre for Voluntary Services £190,969 South East Staffordshire Centre for Integrated Living £206,019 Age Concern North Somerset £187,823 Herefordshire Dial £199,943 Gloucestershire Neighbourhood Projects Network £187,800 Fradley Village Hall Committee Of Management £199,800 Bristol Black Voluntary Sector Development Unit £186,999 Hereford and Worcester CVYS £199,437 Gloucestershire Drugs Project £179,476 Herefordshire Headway £198,725 Progress (South West) Limited £178,106 African and Caribbean People's Movement £196,169 Independence £176,045 Birmingham Independent Living Project £195,012 Millen Advice Point £174,880 Coventry Bangladesh Centre £192,976 Kennet Rural Development Agency £170,832 Newcastle Under Lyme Council for Voluntary Service £192,955 Youth Action Wiltshire £170,303 Rathbone Community Industry £190,614 West Country Energy Action Trust £167,503 Fircroft College of Adult Education £190,182 Disabled Living Centre (West of England) £167,403 Birmingham Disability Resource Centre £190,069 Home Start Okehampton £166,286 Wolverhampton Food Co-Operatives Umbrella Group £188,786 Tavistock and District Council for Voluntary Service £164,805 Ace Resource Centre £187,717 St Petrock's Project (Ecu) Limited £162,839 Solihull MIND £187,588 Cornwall Rural Community Council £159,707 Shropshire Wildlife Trust £187,380 Lifestyles Stroud and Dursley £156,550 The Malvern Hills Homeless Young Adults Trust £186,507 Taunton Deane CVS £155,375 Chase Council for Voluntary Services £185,000 Voluntary Action Swindon £155,000 West Midlands Environmental Network £184,414 Devon and Cornwall Housing Association Limited £151,903 Step Out Drop In £184,063 Hele's Charity Almshouses £150,000 Headway North Staffordshire £183,950 Teignbridge Council for Voluntary Service £148,554 Groundwork Coventry £183,874
37 North Warwickshire CVS £183,845 The Light Of The World Gospel Church £320,616 The Council of Sikh Gurdwaras in Birmingham £181,503 Sheffield Family Service Unit £315,762 Walsall Youth Arts (Wya) £181,319 York Council for Voluntary Service £305,000 Tamworth Sea Cadets £181,014 The Friends of St Nicholas Fields £288,326 Local Initiatives Foundation for Training £181,000 Hull and East Yorkshire Mind £272,683 Birmingham Age Concern £179,259 Workers Educational Association - Yorkshire North District £271,303 Al-Islah Community Trust £177,216 The Bradford City Centre Project Limited £263,599 Coventry Voluntary Service Council £176,279 Workers Educational Association £255,000 Age Concern Wolverhampton £173,487 Calderdale Bond Scheme Limited £226,177 Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council £173,129 Lai Yin Association £224,453 Sikh Community and Youth Service £172,744 Key House Project £221,200 Community Council of Shropshire £172,689 Whirlow Hall Farm Trust Limited £220,498 National Association for Care and Resettlement Wilberfoss Village Hall £200,000 of Offenders £170,065 Doncaster Council for Voluntary Service £199,466 PATH (West Midlands) Ltd £169,005 Centenary - Millennium Project £199,120 Sandwell New Horizons Limited £168,775 Dove House Hospice £198,497 Birmingham Irish Community Forum Ltd £167,427 STOP (Stop Terrorising and Oppressing Partners) £194,991 HARP Birmingham £164,482 St Paul's Church, Birkenshaw, PCC £194,987 St Paul's Community Project Ltd £164,000 Sheffield Association for the Voluntary Teaching of English £194,200 Newcastle under Lyme Citizens Advice Bureau £162,890 Tricare Neighbourhood Project £192,600 Burton Muslim Mosque Association £160,400 Touchstone - Leeds £190,022 Wolverhampton Neighbourhood Mediation Service £159,201 Karmand Community Centre £189,783 Stoke on Trent Council for Voluntary Service £158,578 Dioceseo of Leeds Our Lady & St Robert £189,713 United Evangelical Project £157,611 Detached Youth Work Project £188,472 West Mercia Workers Educational Association £155,931 Hull Women's Centre £188,218 Bromsgrove and District Volunteer Bureau £155,125 Harrogate Community House Trust Limited £185,000 Quality Childcare Support Services £151,709 Sheffield and District Afro Caribbean Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs £151,691 Community Association £183,566 Deaf-initely Independent £149,459 Bosnian and Herzegovinan Charitable Society £183,100 Asra Care Limited £148,426 Voluntary Action Leeds £182,903 WAVES £142,987 Priory Campus Limited £182,440 Shropshire Family Mediation Services £141,556 Basics + £181,454 The Community Council of Hereford and Worcester £141,180 Voluntary Organisations Network for European Funding £180,722 Sandwell Homeless and Resettlement Project Limited £138,003 Claro Enterprises £180,074 Community Resource and Information Service Trust £135,087 Rotherham Play and Learn Bus Project £179,295 Hamac Housing Association Ltd £134,911 Sheffield Women's Education and Training Centre £177,723 Worcestershire Lifestyles £134,008 South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau £176,175 Focus Housing Association Limited £133,777 Resource and Service Development Centre £173,806 Harlescott Scouts and Guides £133,588 Pooh Bear Reading Assistance Society £173,483 Hillfields Activity Centre £130,729 Bradford Foyer Ltd £166,418 Rugby Domestic Violence Project £125,109 Rush House Project Ltd £165,863 Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs £122,281 Kirklees Council for Voluntary Service £164,994 St Chad's (Bilston) Neighbourhood Action Group £121,373 Roundabout Ltd £161,690 Staffordshire County Guide Association £120,000 Wakefield Home-Start £158,670 St Paul, Bordesley Green (Parochial Church Council) £118,330 Richmond YMCA £157,923 St Albans Church, Coventry £117,650 Hull Women's Aid £157,321 Sahara Centre £117,195 Care and Repair (Leeds) Limited £154,785 Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit £116,510 Community Action Halfway Home Limited £154,193 Bromyard Public Hall £114,668 St Anne's Shelter and Housing Action £153,534 Shree Hindu Community Centre £114,589 Foxhill Forum £152,437 Mid-Staffs Mind £112,500 Bradford Nightstop £151,444 Coseley Community Education Network £109,950 City of Hull Environment Forum £150,885 Age Concern Leominster £108,432 The Peasholme Centre York £148,000 Bishops Castle and District Lifeline Company Limited £108,000 York Council for Voluntary Service £146,450 Telford and Wrekin Community Trust £106,490 Stocksbridge Training and Enterprise Partnership £145,880 African Caribbean Project £105,551 West Yorkshire Community Work Training Group £145,496 Family and Friends £103,693 The 'Sobriety' Project Ltd £144,000 Ladywood Fast Track £103,468 Otley Action for Older People £143,455 The Digbeth Trust £101,547 Bentham Community Association £140,366 Children at Risk Projects £101,085 Wakefield Asian Welfare Association £137,442 Redditch Citizens Advice Bureau £101,016 Guru Nanak Sikh Temple £134,340 Solihull Special Needs Active Partnership £100,619 Asian Women's Resource Association £132,113 Burton On Trent Sea Cadet Corps £100,000 North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations £131,506 Holderness Volunteer Centre £131,266 Sheffield Mind Limited £130,055 Doncaster Dyslexia Association £128,916 England, Yorkshire and the Humber The Illingworth Centre £127,634 Bradford and West Yorkshire Methodist Housing Ltd £127,526 Riccall Regen 2000 £632,048 Age Concern East Riding of Yorkshire £127,420 Margaret McMillan Children's Centre £417,599 Penistone Line Partnership £126,695 Pecket Well College £398,780 Bramley and Rodley Community Action £125,699
38 Richmondshire Volunteer Centre £121,767 Richmond Fellowship International £195,545 Ability Maximisation Limited £121,683 Rhondda Community Development Association £193,330 Maltby Outside-In £121,044 London Lighthouse £187,462 Hull Independent Housing Aid Centre £120,866 Minority Rights Group International £187,135 Scarborough Survivors £120,680 Village Aid £184,569 Burley Lodge Centre £116,894 Voluntary Service Overseas £180,668 Mapplewell and Staincross Village Hall £113,688 Prosthetic and Orthotic Worldwide Education and Relief £175,584 Dewsbury Community Mediation Service £113,006 Trade Union International Research and Education Group £175,174 Grimethorpe Electronic Village Hall £112,679 Plan International UK £164,290 Age Concern Wakefield District £111,906 Leonard Cheshire Foundation International £162,815 Sheffield Association for the Voluntary Teaching of English £110,224 Trax Programme Support £160,962 Ellesmere Children's Centre £110,007 Eastern Europe Development Association Ltd £157,034 Third Age Challenge - York Ltd £109,380 Africa Now £148,775 Bole Hill Improvement Group £109,379 Commonwealth Society for the Deaf £148,500 St Wilfred's Drop In Day Centre £105,941 British Overseas N G Os For Development £130,240 Mediation in Sheffield £101,365 World University Services (UK) £124,528 Pakistan Association £101,239 Latin America Bureau Research and Action Limited £111,809 Medical Aid for Palestinians £109,797 Concern Universal £107,410 Befrienders International £106,662 International Television Trust for the Environment £104,250
ACTIONAID £1,092,838 Save the Children Fund (UK) £917,717 Amnesty International UK Section £756,650 Northern Ireland Health Unlimited £740,264 A P T Enterprise Development £653,581 Craigavon Travellers' Support Committee £383,974 S O S Sahel International (UK) £508,994 Educational Guidance Service for Adults £261,226 International Planned Parenthood Federation £498,643 Workers Educational Association Northern Ireland £254,898 Westminster Foundation for Democracy £496,796 The Women's Centre £250,000 Population Concern £493,877 Windsor Women's Centre £233,500 A C O R D £488,160 Rural Community Network £215,500 Intermediate Technology Development Group £471,956 Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities £194,814 Opportunity Trust £460,469 Northern Ireland Trade Union Education and Social Centre £193,154 International Alert £429,660 Students' Housing Association £190,373 Abantu for Development £413,043 Northern Ireland Volunteer Development Agency £184,879 The Marlborough Brandt Group £407,689 Forum for Community Work Education £183,706 Traidcraft Exchange £400,000 Fold Housing Trust £179,398 International Institute for Energy Conservation £357,000 Simon Community £175,610 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers £339,308 Youth Action £171,688 Helpage International £339,284 The Women's Training Enterprise and Childcare Centre £170,975 CARE International UK £329,170 Benview & Ballysillan Ave Tenants' Association £169,017 United Nations Association International Service £309,425 Poleglass Concerned Parents and Residents Association £168,696 African Medical and Research Foundation £294,154 Portrush Community Development Group £163,626 Concern Worldwide £287,551 The Fermanagh Trust £159,026 Book Aid International £286,044 Association of Independent Advice Centres N.I. £153,337 Tree Aid £283,602 Community Development and Health Network £153,203 World Wide Fund for Nature £283,589 The Speedwell Trust £152,882 New Israel Fund £279,155 Ulster Peoples College £150,000 The Naz Foundation £276,197 NIPPA - The Early Years Organisation £145,474 V E T A I D £275,000 The Northern Ireland Science Shop At Q.U.B. £144,164 World Development Movement £263,100 Foyle Downs Syndrome Trust £139,240 Action on Disability & Development £262,216 Triangle Womens Housing Association Limited £138,400 WaterAid £257,040 Greater Turf Lodge Residents' Association £136,877 Institute for War and Peace Reporting £255,028 The Mourne Heritage Trust £135,275 Health Projects Abroad £252,235 Greater Shankill Partnership Co Limited £135,000 Childhope UK £251,857 Women's Health Initiative South Armagh (WHISA) Ltd £134,074 Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund £250,000 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers £132,976 Dolen Cymru £250,000 Survivors of Trauma £130,224 Tropical Health and Education Trust £249,744 Glen Community Parent Youth Club £127,745 Interights £229,100 Greater East Belfast Partnership £124,503 Co-operation for Development (UK) £227,705 Omagh Womens Aid £123,641 International Centre for Conservation Education £226,252 Edward Street Hostel Ltd £123,284 One World Broadcasting Trust £222,982 Lisburn Women's Initiative £122,426 International Broadcasting Trust £222,569 NI Old People's Welfare Council Ltd £122,197 The Refugee Council £220,845 BIH Housing Association Ltd £120,000 Children's Aid Direct £220,090 Cookstown and Dungannon Women's Aid £117,115 Pilotlight £214,656 Speedwell Project £116,624 Raleigh International £212,038 Falls Community Council £114,264 Friends of Birzeit University £211,407 Business in the Community £109,846 The Britain - Nepal Medical Trust £195,964 Dungiven/Burnfoot Family Support Group Initiative Ltd £109,700
39 Oakleaf Rural Community Network £108,624 The National Deaf Children's Society £151,876 Ballymena Women's Aid £108,439 Vale of Leven Community Nursery Users Group £151,573 Womens Support Network £104,544 Marriage Counselling Scotland £150,000 Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network £104,220 Knightscliffe Leisure Hall Management Committee £148,587 Organisation of the Unemployed £103,376 Disability Alliance in The Scottish Highlands £147,832 Royal National Institute for the Blind £102,000 Caithness Voluntary Group £147,619 Bingham and District Older People's Project £147,448 Helping Hands Kilmarnock £147,176 Aberdeenshire Volunteer Network £146,438 Scotland Children In Scotland £144,521 Lothian Community Transport Services £142,495 Lothian Homes Trust - Bridges One Door £619,837 Home-Start UK £141,813 Quarriers Homes £560,697 Newton Stewart Initiative £141,636 Glasgow Association for Mental Health Ltd £559,758 Money Advice Scotland £140,411 Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector £519,454 Clatt Community Business Limited £140,060 Workers Educational Association Scottish Association £498,982 Barrhead Womens Centre £139,114 Aberdeen Young People's Project Trust £483,696 Dunfermline Incest Survivors Project £139,043 Shelter, The National Campaign for Homeless People £468,458 Women Onto Work £138,840 Lead Scotland £436,345 Lincluden After School Group £137,848 The Wynd Centre Paisley £419,425 Orkney Pre-School and Play Association £134,537 Sense Scotland £334,337 Artlink £134,485 Tenants' Information Service Ltd £315,230 Strone Maukinhill Youth Project £134,000 One Plus: One Parent Families £307,408 1st Stirlingshire Scout Group £132,475 Disabled Persons Housing Service (Lothian) £301,687 Community Self-Build Scotland Ltd £131,478 Friends of the Earth Scotland £297,419 Enable - Edinburgh Branch £130,974 Comunn Na Gaidhlig £284,254 Heatwise Limited £128,214 Victim Support Scotland £280,012 The Greater Easterhouse Society for the Handicapped £126,981 Glasgow Simon Community £274,370 Plains Countryside Park £126,776 Save Cash and Reduce Fuel £267,828 Clackmannanshire Citizens Advice Bureau £126,525 Angus Housing Association Limited £257,000 Scottish Befriending Development Forum £126,486 Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations' Council £248,964 Fast Forward £125,640 Ross and Cromarty Footpath Trust £247,953 The Employability Forum £125,269 Blackburn Family Association £239,631 Urachadh - Uibhist £125,000 Coalsnaughton Devonshire and Langour Public Hall £235,000 Spey Bay Public Hall £124,714 Living and Learning In Clackmannanshire £222,283 The Life Science Trust £122,300 Crossroads (Scotland) Care Attendant Schemes £217,775 Woodside/Firhill And North Kelvin Community Care Scheme £120,646 Edinburgh Community Trust £207,805 Dumbarton and District Community Care Forum £120,011 Cromarty Action for Young People £199,577 The Gorgie City Farm Association £118,835 The St Aidan's Project Association Ltd £199,288 Volunteer Action Dumfries and Galloway £117,123 Voluntary Action Resource Centre (Falkirk and District) £192,874 Scottish Wider Access Programme Hillhead Harestanes Tenants' and Residents' Association £190,702 (West & Central Consortium) £115,852 CSV Environment £188,732 Cruse Bereavement Care (Scotland) £114,481 Care & Repair (Age Concern Scotland) Limited £183,910 Campbeltown Waste Watchers £113,715 Ideal Training £183,809 Edinburgh Women's Training Centre £112,522 Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations £182,890 Borders Association of Youth Clubs £110,845 Argyll Council for Voluntary Organisations £182,782 Edinburgh Green Belt Trust £110,418 Access Ability Lothian £181,241 Scottish Wildlife and Countryside Link £110,237 Edinburgh Volunteer Tutors Organisation £181,100 Western Isles Community Care Fora £108,749 National Foster Care Association £180,223 Scottish Community Care Forum £108,628 Loretto Housing Association £179,994 Skillnet Edinburgh £108,285 Community Volunteers Enabling Youth £176,660 Central Area Recording System for the Environment £107,848 Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for the Blind £175,799 Hawkhill Community Association £106,296 Angus Association of Voluntary Organisations £174,598 Smiths Place Group £105,770 Dundee Community Language Advisory Group £173,163 Ethnic Enterprise Centre £105,284 St Aubin's Project £170,420 Isle of Muck Community Enterprise Limited £105,000 Jewish Care Scotland £170,000 Wellhouse Centre £104,615 83rd Fife (Cairneyhill) Scout Group £170,000 Dumfries Toy Library £102,052 Voluntary Organisations North East Fife £168,914 Edinburgh City Youth Cafe £101,573 Greenlight Recycling £165,991 Carnock and Gowkhall Youth Club £100,673 Child Poverty Action Group £165,650 North Lochs Community Association £100,000 Rathbone Community Industry £164,816 Bellshill and Mossend YMCA £164,520 Castlemilk Youth Complex Limited £161,085 Arran Textiles - Project Orchil £160,745 UK, All Scottish Low Pay Unit £160,069 Skye and Lochalsh Council for Voluntary Organisations £159,560 Fairbridge £943,000 Playhaven £157,324 National Council on Ageing £889,000 Scotland Yard Adventure Centre £155,700 The Royal National Institute for Deaf People £573,050 Young Miracle Productions £154,371 National Open College Network £543,835 Central Scotland Chinese Association £154,098 Volunteers (PTP) Trust £540,500 Ethnic Minority Enterprise Centre £153,773 Telephone Helplines Association £518,330
40 Tidy Britain Group £483,000 Bangor Citizens Advice Bureau £190,175 National Energy Action £434,113 Antur Dwyryd/Llyn Cyf £189,500 Trust for the Study of Adolescence £410,332 Wales Council for Voluntary Action £189,367 Institute of Community Studies £400,000 Wales Community Recycling Network £187,983 Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities £379,513 Canolfan Iaith Clwyd £187,300 Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations £361,500 National Foster Care Association £184,984 The National Pensioners Convention £330,581 Gofal Housing Trust £179,979 Housing Associations Charitable Trust £316,350 Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin £177,347 Advice Services Alliance £316,153 Cymdeithas Tai Eryri £177,222 Awear £292,751 CSV (Community Service Volunteers) £176,589 National Osteoporosis Society £285,778 Safer Merthyr Tydfil £176,535 University of the Third Age £281,965 Newport Resource Centre £174,229 National Association for Lay Visiting £263,715 South Wales Vietnamese Refugee Community Association £169,629 Soil Association, The £260,042 Islwyn & Rhymney Valley Groundwork Trust £163,840 PHAB Federation £251,329 North Wales Resources Centre for Disabled People £160,311 National Extension College £209,123 Swansea Bay Racial Equality Council £156,045 Learning Through Landscapes £199,020 Antur Teifi £154,918 Single Parent Action Network £197,984 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds £154,476 Child Poverty Action Group £195,724 Young Women's Christian Association £153,983 YMCA George Williams Company £194,198 MIND £152,542 Association for Residential Care £193,963 Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) Limited £150,485 British Association for Early Childhood Education £193,404 Welsh Association of Youth Clubs £149,049 Marine Conservation Society Limited £191,939 Shore FM Radio Morfa Limited £146,777 Broadcasting Support Services £189,963 The Weston Spirit £145,624 ICFM Trust £189,592 Gwasanaeth Cynnal Gofalwyr £144,579 UK Council on Deafness £188,334 The Guiding Hand Association £140,465 Alone In London Service £187,789 Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil £140,228 Federation of Independent Advice Centres £175,015 Gwent Victim Support Scheme £140,041 Sustrans Limited £169,000 Barnardo's £139,000 Pedestrians Association for Road Safety £167,435 Elite Supported Employment Agency Limited £138,578 London Bereavement Network £162,752 SCOVO for People with a Learning Disability in Wales £136,765 Waste Watch £156,167 Ebbw Fach Development Trust Limited £136,663 Release £154,940 Cywaith Joseph Co-Operative Ltd £136,075 Community Transport Association UK £154,836 Mynydd Y Garreg Welfare Hall £132,500 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association £150,310 St Paul's Family Centre £130,766 Community Media Association £149,085 Powys Children and Families Forum £129,594 Media Trust, The £148,500 The Welsh Dysphasia Trust £126,573 ADFAM National £144,728 Project Milford Limited £126,523 Confederation of Co-Operative Housing £137,348 Mudiad Ffermwyr Ifanc Cymru £124,722 The Foundation for After School Activities £136,518 RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) £124,443 Suzy Lamplugh Trust, The £136,502 South Glamorgan Women's Workshop Limited £124,296 National Centre for Volunteering, The £134,988 The Environment Centre Limited £124,000 NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) £127,749 Llantysilio Cymdeithas Y Cwm £123,925 Inside Out Trust £121,046 Llandaff Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility £120,000 National Friend (Ltd) £120,142 Shortlife Housing (Cymru) Ltd £119,716 PAT ( Pets As Therapy ) £120,000 Mencap in Wales/Mencap Yng Nghymru £118,363 Big Brothers and Sisters of the United Kingdom £120,000 Llanelli Youth and Children's Association £117,391 Values Into Action £119,642 United Estates Strategy Group £115,952 Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC) £118,745 Community Design for Gwent £114,928 The Daycare Trust £116,814 Youthlink Wales/Cyswllt Ieuencid Cymru £113,420 Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy £114,456 Age Concern Torfaen £112,629 Forest Stewardship Council UK Working Group £111,976 Islwyn District Scout Council £111,182 Disability Alliance-Educational and Research Association £103,529 Cardiff Move-On Limited £109,876 Charities Aid Foundation £100,000 Cymdeithas Caerlas Cyf £109,540 Neuadd Bentref Llanuwchlyn £108,616 Y Gwalia Canolfan Y Teulu £106,046 PSS. Liverpool Personal Service Society (Inc) £105,805 Wales Cymorth I Ferched Blaenau Ffestiniog £104,166 Childline £103,910 Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Service Ltd £371,905 Shared Earth Trust £103,591 The National Autistic Society £360,741 Bridgend and District Resource for Children with Disabilities £101,818 Swansea Council for Voluntary Service £250,000 Cardiff Bond Board £101,091 Instant Muscle Limited £231,465 Canolfan Gymdeithasol Rhosmeirch £100,968 Butetown History and Arts Centre (BHAC) £222,712 Llanrwst Youth Project £100,000 The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers £204,329 Urdd Gobaith Cymru £200,000 Vale Council for Voluntary Services £197,270 Scope £194,300 Unllais £193,194 Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations £192,123 Ogwr Drugs and Alcohol Self Help Group £192,117
41 Who we are: Board members and committees
Chairman: David Sieff Biographies Deputy Chairman: Sir Adam Ridley Hon David Sieff Chairman of the Board; England Committee Non-Executive Director of Marks and (Chair) Stella Clarke CBE Spencer plc; non-executive Chair of FIBI Amir Bhatia OBE (UK) plc; Director of the British Retail Steven Burkeman (from 1 Jan 98) Consortium, Newbury Racecourse plc Ian Clarke and the Horserace Totalisator Board; founder member of Business in the Julia Kaufmann OBE Community; member of the Council of Sir Eric Stroud the Prince’s Youth Business Trust and Chris Woodcock (until 31 Dec 97) Chair of Racing Welfare Charities.
Sir Adam Ridley Northern Ireland Committee Deputy Chairman of the Board and (Chair) John Simpson OBE member of the UK Committee; Member Aideen McGinley of Council, Lloyds and Chairman of Monica McWilliams Trustees of Equitas Group; Executive William Osborne (from 1 Jan 98) Director of Hambros plc 1985-1997; former Special Adviser to Chancellor of Noel Stewart OBE the Exchequer, 1979-85; member of the Council of St Christopher’s Hospice; UK Committee member of the Council for Charitable (Chair) Graham Bowie CBE (until 31 Dec 97) Support; Patron of the Multiple Births Foundation; Deputy Chairman Tessa Baring CBE Association of Lloyds members. Amir Bhatia OBE Amanda Jordan (Chair, from 1 Jan 98) Tessa Baring Julia Kaufmann OBE CBE; Chair of the Board’s Policy Linda Quinn (until 31 Dec 97) Co-ordination Committee and member of the UK Committee; Tom Jones (from 1 Jan 98) Trustee (former Chair) of Barnardo’s, the Sir Adam Ridley Baring Foundation and the St Michaelís John Simpson OBE Fellowship; currently Chairing the Mental Health Foundation inquiring into the Wales Committee mental health of children and young people; Member of the Council for (Chair) Tom Jones OBE charitable support and NCVO’s June Churchman OBE DL Presidents Advisory Council; Fellow of Alan Higgins OstJ OBE the RSA; Formerly Chair of the DTI Elisabeth Watkins (from 1 Jan 98) Deregulation Task Force for Charities and Voluntary Organisations; Chairman Linda Quinn (until 31 Dec 97) of the Association of Charitable Foundations and Charity Commissioner. Scotland Committee (Chair) Garth Morrison CBE DL Amir Bhatia Kay Hampton (from 1 Jan 98) OBE; Member of the Board’s England and UK Committees; Chair of the Forbes Graham Bowie CBE (until 31 Dec 97) Trust, Hospice Arts, Project Fullemploy; William Kirkpatrick OBE Trustee of the Community Development Philomena de Lima Foundation, Oxfam, St Christopher Hospice and Local Investment Fund.
Steven Burkeman Member of the Board’s England
42 Committee; Trust Secretary, The Poverty Information Unit; member Philomena de Lima Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust; of the advisory committee, SCVO Member of the Board’s Scotland former member of the National Race Equality Committee. Committee; Programme Area Lottery Charities Board’s Manager, Social Sciences and Yorkshire and Humber Regional Alan Higgins Languages, Inverness College of Advisory Panel; Honorary OBE; Member of the Board’s Further and Higher Education; Secretary, Interfund; Member, Wales Committee; O. St. J; retired former member of the Scottish Advisory Council, Public Concern teacher and HM Inspector of Advisory Panel for Community at Work; Member, Charity Know Schools; President of Youth Development Foundation and the How Grants Committee; Trustee, Events Wales; Chair of Welsh Training Advisory Committee for FunderFinder; carer representative Association of Youth Clubs; Vice Volunteer Development Scotland; on City of York Council’s President of Scout Association; member of a range of Fostering/Sharing Care panel; Vice President of YMCA (Wales); organisations, including Highland Fellow of the RSA; School Hon Research Fellow, University Community Care Forum. Governor. of Wales College, Cardiff. Monica McWilliams June Churchman Tom Jones Member of the Board’s Northern OBE; Member of the Board’s OBE; Chair of the Board’s Wales Ireland Committee; Senior Wales Committee; Vice-President Committee; he is a farmer; Lecturer in Social and Community of the Guide Association; Deputy member of both the Countryside Sciences at the University of Lieutenant of Clwyd since 1988; Council for Wales and the Ulster; vice chair of the Northern Vice-President, Council for Wales Agricultural Training Board; past Ireland European Women’s Voluntary Youth Services; Vice- President of the Young Farmers Platform; elected representative, Chair Wales Assembly of Women, Clubs of Wales; former member Northern Ireland Women’s North East Wales branch. of the S4C television authority. Coalition, to the Northern Ireland Forum and Peace Talks. Ian Clarke Amanda Jordan Member of the Board’s England Chair of the Board’s UK W Garth Morrison Committee; Retired as Agent of Committee; Head of Public Affairs CBE; Member of the Board’s the Bank of England, Newcastle- NatWest Group and Trustee of the Scotland Committee; DL; farmer upon-Tyne in 1994; Council NatWest Group Charitable Trust; in East Lothian; former Chief Member of the University of advisor to the Social Exclusion Scout of the UK, member of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Chairman of Unit; has worked for NCVO, Scope World Scout Committee; honorary the University Development Trust; and Age Concern; member of the fellow of the Scottish Community Chairman of University Pension Board of Corporate Responsibility Education Council; Chair of East Fund; Trustee of the Catherine Group, Council for Charitable and Midlothian NHS Trust; Vice Cookson Foundation. Support, the advisory group on Chair of the South East welfare to work; Fellow of RSA Committee of Scottish Stella Clarke and a School Governor. Landowners’ Federation; Trustee CBE; Chair of the Board’s England of the Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Committee; Justice of the Peace Julia Kaufmann Trust; Vice President and Deputy Lieutenant of Bristol; OBE; Member of the Board’s UK Commonwealth Youth Exchange Pro-Chancellor of Bristol and England Committees; Director Council; Chairman of the Royal University; involved in social of BBC Children in Need Appeal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust housing and a past local authority since 1987; Executive Committee and Chairman of the South East representative for 25 years; member of the Association of Committee of the SLF. Chairman of Nightstone Housing Charitable Foundations; member Association; Chairman Community of the Institute of Charity Bill Osborne Self-Build Agency. Fundraising Managers; former Member of the Board’s Northern Director of Gingerbread, the Ireland and UK Committees; Kay Hampton Association for One Parent Director, Voluntary Service Member of the Board’s Scotland Families. Belfast; Member and former and UK Committees; Sociologist Treasurer of Prince’s Trust - and researcher; Research William Kirkpatrick Action, Northern Ireland Director, Scottish Ethnic OBE; Member of the Board’s Committee; member of Sydney Minorities Research Unit, Scotland Committee; Member of Stewart Memorial Fund; Secretary Glasgow Caledonian University; the Gaming Board for Great to Ian Gow Memorial Trust Specialist Visiting Lecturer, Britain. Main career was in Northern Ireland Committee; Department of Social Sciences, finance, with 3i plc 1960-1985 Member of Northern Ireland Glasgow Caledonian University; (including a secondment to The Council for Voluntary Action member of the executive Scottish Office) and as an Executive Committee; Former committee, Apna Ghar Black Led independent non-executive Chairperson of Belfast Central Housing Association; member of director 1985-1995. Served as a Training; Former Chairperson of the advisory committee, Scottish JP for inner London 1985-1992. Parent’s Advice Council; Former
43 Vice Chair Simon Community, England regional South East International grants Marjorie Ouvry MA Northern Ireland. advisory panels Hazel Peasley advisory panel Michael Wright John Simpson East Midlands Jane Wates Adrian Sindall CMG (Chair) Mark Carroll Barbara Wise OBE; Chair of the Board’s Northern Marion Forsyth Helen Kimber Basic needs Ireland Committee; Economist; Yvonne Brooks David Alfred BA, MSc (water/sanitation/health- Wendy Goldring John Whitaker care/housing) former Senior Lecturer in Queen’s Paula Harris Paul Sohal Dr Pramilla Senanayake University; member of the Economic Michael Hall Dr Alan Rogers MA, Mphil, David Collett OBE Rt Rev Alan Wyndham PhD, FRGS and Social Committee of the Morgan Alan Ellis Human rights European Union; part-time lecturer in Andrew Vaughan Emma Playfair Jane Todd South West Alun Burge economics at the University of Ulster; Ian Samways MIPD, Brian Bailey OBE JP DL Chairman of the Emerging Business MInstMgm Peter McDonald OBE JP Education Trust; former Chair of the Probation Lady Belinda Buchanan Barbara McDonald Phil Thompson Parvin Ali Chas Lilleystone Board of Northern Ireland; former Caitriona Tobin Micro enterprise Chair of Eastern Health and Social Eastern Steve Paget Tim Atterton Mungai Mbayah Museji Takolia Services Board. Cecil Wilson Bob Dersley Development policy Richard Martineau Amanda Martin Dr Emma Crewe Penny McVeigh Brian Tanner CBE Noel Stewart Tessa Munt Ian Andrews Environmental manage- OBE; Member of the Board’s Ann Polley Jenny Craig ment/agroforestry Northern Ireland Committee; Balvinder Saund JP Jan Crawley Shaun Henry Susan Solomons Chartered accountant; Director of Linda Hoggarth West Midlands Gender Northern Ireland Transport Holding Michael Talbot Brian Browne Mukami Ndegwa McCrum Judy Clements Company Limited; Director of London Sheila Rawlins Capacity building Progressive Building Society; retired Tim Cook Earl Ferguson (Central and Eastern Europe Menghi Mulchandani Kishor Pala focus) Regional Partner in Charge for Helen Ruffell-Hazell Paulette Green James Houston Coopers and Lybrand (Northern Harry Marsh Janice Pennel Claire Hitchcock Evelyne Lloyd-Williams Monitoring and evaluation Ireland); Chair of Craigavon Hospital Lorraine Roberts Sue Nicholls Dr Tina Wallace Trust; Honorary Treasurer of Queen’s David Taylor Alan Bain BA, LLM University, Belfast. Anne Page Mel Akers Knowledge of development Clyde Williams Carol Thompson approaches Barbara Riddell Dr Neil Thin Professor Sir Eric Stroud Cilla Philips Yorkshire and the Humber Abdulhamid Ismail Member of the Board’s England Kanti Nagda (until Feb 1998) Julie Cox Medical research Committee Director, Overseas North East Jonathan Fry David Francis Sue Cook advisory panel Department, Royal College of Andrea Armstrong Jo Habib Physicians; senior research fellow, Abdul Khan Colin Barnes Professor Ingrid Allen (Chair) Department of Paediatrics, Guy’s Barbara Dennis Martin Wainwright Professor Charles du V Florey Tom Shakespeare Dennis Owen OBE Dame Fiona Caldicott Hospital; medical adviser, Variety Paul McGee Susan Frost Professor Norman Bleehan Club of Great Britain. Judith Lund MA PGCE Melanie Hunter Professor Paul Dieppe Carole Howells BA, MA(Ed), Phil Ward Professor Karen Luker MBA Robert Pitt Ms Caroline Langridge Elisabeth Watkins Professor John Clarke DL, Ian Strong Professor Mark Haggard MA, PhD Professor Sir John Member of the Board’s Wales and Michael Boundy Grimley Evans UK Committees; Barrister who has Alice Mortimer Lady Winifred Tumim Leo Gillen Professor Peter Harper practised in Britain and Bermuda; Deborah Cadman Professor Brian Anderton Immigration Adjudicator; Chairs the Professor Beverly Griffin NHS Complaints Independent Review North West Professor Neil McIntosh Professor Andrew Lock Professor Chris Ham Panel in Wales; has worked for BA, MSc, PhD, MBCS, FSS, voluntary organisations in Pakistan, FIDM, FCIM, FRSA Sandra St Rose Social research Canada and Swaziland; former Diane Corner Chairman of the International Adrian Crowe advisory panel Angela Madeley Committee of the British Red Cross Dennis Crook Dr Janet Lewis (Chair) in Vancouver; founding Chairman of Jolyon,Dodgson Professor Michael Oliver the Swaziland Hospice at Home. Diana McConnell Dr Kirsten Stalker Ebrahim Adia Dr David Towell Chinelo Mathieson LLB Professor Gordon Grant (Hons) Mr Richard Wood Tony Jones BSc, MSc, Professor Eithne McLaughlin MIEEM, MIEM Ms Maureen Oswin Gillian Elliott Professor Sally Baldwin Bill Egerton Professor Gillian Parker Ms Clare Evans Dr Waqar Ahmad Dr Robin Bunton Professor Clare Wenger
44 Directors
Timothy Hornsby, Barry MacDonald, Gerald Oppenheim, Chief Executive Director of Finance Director UK & Corporate Planning
Previously Chief Joined the Board Formerly Director Executive of the from Scope of the London Royal Borough of (formerly the Borough Grants Kingston upon Spastics Society) Unit for 10 years, Thames and where he was where he was before then Director of responsible for an Director General Finance. Prior to annual budget of of the Nature that he was £30 million, Conservancy Council. Prior to that he Finance Director and General delivering grant aid to 650 voluntary held several posts in the Treasury Manager of Reuters Television Ltd organisations. and Department of Environment, and Financial Controller (Europe) of including responsibility for the Urban P&O Containers Ltd. Programme, Historic Buildings, and Rural Affairs.
Stephen Bubb, Robin Mullan,* Janet Paraskeva, Director of Personnel & Director for Northern Ireland Director for England Administration
Previously spent Formerly Chief Moved to the seven years as Executive of the Board from the Assistant Western Isles National Youth Secretary of Health Board, and Agency where she Personnel at the from 1984-93, was Director and Association of Chief Executive of founding Chief Metropolitan Disability Action, Executive. Also a Authorities. He Northern Ireland’s non-Executive has wide voluntary, health and local largest disability organisation. Director of an NHS Trust and a authority experience, and is a Youth magistrate. She was previously HM Court Magistrate in London. He Inspector in the Department of founded the Landmark in South Education. London.
Paul Hensby, Roy Norris, John Rafferty, Director of Communications Director for Wales Director for Scotland
Formerly Head of Before joining the He was Head of Press and Public Board, he was Business Affairs at the Head of the Development Local Government Voluntary Sector Strategy with the Management Branch in the Archdiocese of Board which he Welsh Office, Glasgow. Previous helped to launch where he was posts included in 1991. He has responsible for a Chief Executive of had extensive experience in the wide range of policy and operational the Scottish Foundation for Social and private sector. matters. Economic Development, and Director of Strathclyde Volunteer Centre.
*Robin Mullan left the Board in August 1998
45 Finance Report by the Director of Finance - Barry MacDonald
1. Income for the year under review was 5. Investment income is earned on the £366 million (1996/97 £318 million), of balance in the National Lottery which £322 million came from the Distribution Fund, contributing £40 National Lottery (1996/97 £289 million to the Board’s income for the million), and £44 million from year available for grant giving. Lapsed investment and other income (1996/97 and revoked grant commitments £29 million). contributed a further £4 million income. 2. With effect from 6 October 1997, the 6. The Board gives grants for both capital Board’s share of National Lottery income and revenue expenditure. Payment was reduced from 20% to 16.7% of the commitments can extend for up to three money allocated to “Good Causes”. In years for main grants programmes and common with the other four existing five years for international grant distributors, the Board had its share programmes. As successive rounds of reduced in order to provide funding from grants are made, the liabilities extending the Lottery for a new distributor, the New into future years will accumulate and this Opportunities Fund, and for the National will ensure a steady reduction in the Endowment for Science, Technology and Fund balance. The Board plans its grant the Arts. offers over its programme of grant 3. The Board made grant commitments rounds so that the projected cash (offers that were accepted) of £219 outflow in each future year remains million in the year under review. These within the expected income from the covered its fourth programme, New Lottery, leaving a reasonable margin for opportunities and choices, part of its contingency purposes. fifth programme Improving people’s living 7. The Board’s total expenditure covers the environments, its first International cost of assessing nearly 22,000 grants programme, and its pilot Small applications, managing over 12,000 grants scheme in Scotland, Wales, North approved grants, developing policies, East and South West Regions of procedures and IT systems, together England. The Board also made a further with associated management and £115 million of grant offers in respect of administration. The operating cost figure the fifth programme which were awaiting for the year of £22 million represented acceptance at the end of the year. They 6% of annual income available for grant have subsequently become giving. commitments. Grants paid during the 8. Operating Costs included over £1 million year were £193 million, leaving £369 of VAT, as the Board is unable to recover million of grant commitments VAT on goods and services purchased. outstanding at the end of the year, 9. Capital expenditure during the year was together with the £115 million £3 million, covering IT and office outstanding offers. equipment, fixtures and fittings. The 4. Income is held in the National Lottery Corporate Office relocated following Distribution Fund until it is required to expiry of a lease and the set up of pay grants or meet operational England regional offices was completed. expenditure. The balance held in the Fund at the end of the year was £665 million, of which £369 million was committed in respect of grants, with a further £115 million offers outstanding. 46 Summarised financial statement
Introduction
This Summary financial statement is a summary of the National Lottery Charities Board’s full annual accounts as set out in “National Lottery Charities Board Financial Statements for the Year to 31/3/98”, which should be consulted for a full understanding of the results of the Board and its state of affairs. This document may be obtained from the Director of Finance.
The report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 March 1998 was unqualified.
The following summarised financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Chairman’s Preface, Chief Executive’s Report and the Finance Director’s Report which mention, to the extent applicable, any important future developments and contain a summary financial review.
47 Statement of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Board and Chief Executive
I have examined the summary financial statement set out on pages 49 and 50 which has been prepared in the form and on the basis set out at note 3 on page 50.
Respective responsibilities of the Board, the Chief Executive and the Auditor
The summary financial statement is the responsibility of the Board and the Chief Executive. My responsibility is to report to you my opinion on its preparation and consistency with the full financial statements and foreword.
Basis of opinion I have conducted my work in accordance with the Auditing Guideline - “The auditors’ statement on the summary financial statement” adopted by the Auditing Practices Board.
Opinion In my opinion the summary financial statement is consistent with the full financial statements and foreword of the National Lottery Charities Board for the year ended 31 March 1998 and has been properly prepared on the basis set out in note 3 of the summary financial statement.
John Bourn Comptroller and Auditor General 12th October 1998 National Audit Office 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road Victoria, London SW1W 9SP
48 Summarised financial statement for the year to 31/3/98
Income and expenditure £ million £ million 1997/98 1996/97
Income from the National Lottery 322 289 Investment and other income 44 29 Total Income 366 318
Grant commitments made in the year 219 319 Operating expenditure 22 18 Total expenditure 241 337
Net income/(cost) for the year retained 125 (19)
Balance Sheet as at 31/3/98 Fixed assets 4 2 Investment balance in the National Lottery Distribution Fund 665 521 Other current assets 3 2 Current liabilities (3) (2) Total assets less current liabilities 669 523
Represented by: Grant Commitments 369 347 Retained net income brought forward 175 195 Retained net income/(cost) for the year 125 (19) 669 523
Cash Flow Funds drawn down from the National Lottery Distribution Fund 217 130 Payments of grants (193) (110) Payments of operating costs (20) (17) Total net cash in flow from operating activities 4 3 Purchase of fixed assets (3) (1) Increase/(Decrease) in cash 1 2
On behalf of the National Lottery Charities Board, who approved the Summary Financial Statement on 15th September 1998.
T Hornsby D Sieff Accounting Officer Chairman
49 Note 1 Board Members The members of the Board during 1997/98 are shown on page 42-44. Their total remuneration received in the year was £77,124. Last year their remuneration was £87,912.
Note 2 Grant Commitments £ Million £ Million 1997/98 1996/97 Grant Commitments outstanding at start of year 347 139 Grant Commitments made in the year 219 319 Grant Commitments paid in the year (194) (110) Grant Commitments lapsed or revoked (4) (1) Grant Commitments outstanding at year end 368 347
Note 3 Governing Regulations The Summary Financial Statement has been prepared in accordance with Section 251 of the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies (Summary Financial Statements) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995 - 2092) as far as is relevant.
Note 4 The value of gifts given by the Board was £580, and that of gifts received by the Board members and staff was £417.
Note 5 Operating Expenditure in detail for the year £ million 1997/98 Staff and Assessors 11.4 Research 0.1 Consultants 0.2 Professional Fees 0.4 Telemarketing 0.6 IT Supplies and Support 1.2 IT Systems Development 1.7 Grant Publications and Communications 1.3 Office Expenses 0.9 Accommodation 1.2 Depreciation 1.2 VAT 1.5 21.7
Note 6 Tax and notional interest for both years shown are less than £1m, hence the Net income/(cost) for the year retained is the same before and after tax and notional interest when rounded as above.
Statutory background The National Lottery Charities Board was established as a Non-Departmental Public Body by the National Lottery etc Act 1993. The Act specifies the share of the National Lottery to be received and it regulates the appointment of committees for grant making. The Secretary of State is given power under the Act to give directions as to the matters to be taken into account in grant making and the conditions under which any money is distributed.
The Secretary of State issued the following Policy Directions in September 1995 and the following Financial Directions in May 1997. The Board has complied with these directions throughout the financial year 1997/98 in every material aspect.
50 Policy and financial directions
National Lottery etc Act 1993 Policy G: the need to have regard from the outset to: Directions issued under Section 26(1) the interests of the UK as a whole; The Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the interests of the different parts of the UK; exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 26(1) and of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, and after consulting the National Lottery Charities Board, hereby the relative population sizes of, and appropriate gives the following Directions to the National Lottery socio-economic factors applicable to, the Charities Board: different parts of the UK; The National Lottery Charities Board shall take into and, in addition, to consider the interests of account the following matters in determining the persons organisations with a base in the UK and working to whom, the purposes for which and the conditions overseas; subject to which it distributes money under section 25(1) of the Act: and to distribute grants in the light of these considerations; A: the need to ensure that reasonable steps are taken to publicise widely the potential availability of H: the need not to distribute money under section 25 grants and to avoid soliciting applications from to a company falling within section 27(2)(a). individual organisations; Signed by authority of the Secretary of State B: the need to ensure that the Board, in the policies it for the Home Department. adopts from time to time as to the distribution of monies, achieves over time the distribution of money:
a) to a reasonably wide spread of recipients, including small organisations and those operating purely at a local level; and b) across a reasonably wide range of charitable (whether or not charitable in law), benevolent 12 September 1995 Michael Head and philanthropic activity; A Grade 3 Officer in the Home Office C: the need to set specific time limits on the periods in respect of which grants are payable, whether for capital or revenue expenditure;
D: the need to ensure that money is distributed only for charitable (whether or not charitable in law), benevolent or philanthropic purposes;
E: the need to consider in both financial and practical terms the likely viability of ventures in respect of which it is proposed to distribute money and also the likely availability of other funding to meet any continuing costs for a reasonable period after completion of the period for which the Board is proposing to make a grant;
F: the need to ensure that it has such information as it considers necessary to make decisions on each application, including independent expert advice where required;
51 Annex A not charitable in law), benevolent and philanthropic Directions issued to the National Lottery activity. Charities Board under Section 26(1) of the C: the need to set specific time limits on the periods National Lottery etc. Act 1993 in respect of which grants are payable, whether for capital or revenue expenditure; Explanatory note Explanatory note The Secretary of State for the Home Department, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 26(1) There is no presumption in favour of capital projects or to of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, and after consulting make partnership funding or contributions in kind a the National Lottery Charities Board, hereby gives the condition of its grants. following Directions to the National Lottery Charities Board: 2. Many of the applications considered by the Board are likely to be in respect of specific time-limited The National Lottery Charities Board shall take into projects. The Board is however also free to make account the following matters in determining the persons grants for the continuing programmes of applicants. to whom, the purposes for which and the conditions subject to which it distributes money under section 25(1) 3. Applicants should not be led to assume continued of the Act: funding by the Board, although such continued funding is not ruled out. A: the need to ensure that reasonable steps are taken to publicise widely the potential availability of 4. The aim of this direction is to discourage the silting grants and to avoid soliciting applications from up of resources which would result from a individual organisations; commitment to meet the continuing central costs of an organisation that were not related to a specific Explanatory note project or programme, unless such commitment were for a limited period such as to facilitate It is important that the process of applying for and innovatory or developmental work. receiving Lottery funds works from the bottom up. It is open to the Board to encourage applications of particular D: the need to ensure that money is distributed only types or in particular geographical or subject areas, but it for charitable (whether or not charitable in law), is important that in so doing it does not solicit benevolent or philanthropic purposes; applications from particular organisations. Explanatory note B: the need to ensure that the Board, in the policies it adopts from time to time as to the distribution of The Board may make grants only to charities or to monies, achieves over time the distribution of institutions established for charitable (whether or not money: charitable in law), benevolent or philanthropic purposes. This direction is intended to ensure that grants to such a) to a reasonably wide spread of recipients, bodies are spent only on the purposes for which such including small organisations and those bodies are established. operating purely at a local level; and 2. All applicants should be able to demonstrate the b) across a reasonably wide range of charitable likely benefits that would result from their use of a (whether or not charitable in law), benevolent grant by the Board. Where the applicant is a and philanthropic activity; registered charity acting in accordance with its constitution or a charitable trust acting within the Explanatory note terms of its trust deed, the beneficial effects might be taken as read. In other cases, specific evidence The Board should take legal advice on its own account as of the likely benefit should be required. to the bodies to which it can make grants. The Board has a legal obligation to consider all eligible applications. This E: the need to consider in both financial and practical does not inhibit the Board from having an overall policy terms the likely viability of ventures in respect of (which may change from time to time) and from which it is proposed to distribute money and also considering applications in the light of that policy, as well the likely availability of other funding to meet any as the other directions to which it is required to have continuing costs for a reasonable period after regard and the funds available to it, provided that it is completion of the period for which the Board is ready to consider exceptions to that policy when examining proposing to make a grant; the merits of individual applications. Explanatory note 2. The aim of this direction is not to favour any particular class of organisation. It is, rather, to Applicants should be able to demonstrate as far as prevent organisations being overlooked for funding practicable that they are proposing a viable venture which merely because they are small or work on a purely is unlikely to lead to a waste of Lottery funds. local basis; and to ensure that, over time, the Board does not restrict its grant-making to an 2. This direction is not intended to inhibit the Board unreasonably narrow range of charitable (whether or from making grants for work which is innovative or
52 developmental, nor need it be satisfied that the the extent to which Lottery proceeds might have a continuation of the work beyond the period for beneficial impact. which the grant is to be made is fully guaranteed. Indeed some funded ventures may be experimental, H: the need not to distribute money under section 25 to prove or disprove a particular approach. But the to a company falling within section 27(2)(a). Board should take into account the extent to which funding from other sources is likely to be available, Explanatory note whether in parallel with Lottery funding or to continue work after Lottery funding has expired. The Secretary of State may, by order under section What constitutes a reasonable future period will 27(2)(a) of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, prohibit a depend on the size and nature of the venture. distributing body from distributing funds to an organisation of which the body, or a wholly owned subsidiary of the F: the need to ensure that it has such information as body, is a member. The purpose of this Direction is to it considers necessary to make decisions on each draw the bodies’ attention to this matter and thus avoid application, including independent expert advice the need for a section 27 order. where required;
Explanatory note
The Board, its committees and staff may not have knowledge and expertise relevant to every aspect of every application received by the Board. It is particularly in such cases that it may be appropriate for the Board to obtain independent expert advice from another source with no direct interest itself in the application. Financial Directions G: the need to have regard from the outset to: National Lottery etc. Act 1993 the interests of the UK as a whole; Financial Directions to be issued to the National Lottery Charities Board under Section 26(3) & (4) the interests of the different parts of the UK; and (i) The National Lottery Charities Board shall comply with the requirements contained within the the relative population sizes of, and appropriate Statement of Financial Requirements attached as socio-economic factors applicable to, the an Annex to these directions when carrying out its different parts of the UK; functions under section 25 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. Wherever specified in that and, in addition, to consider the interests of document, the Board must obtain the consent of organisations with a base in the UK and working the Secretary of State before carrying out certain overseas; activities.
and to distribute grants in the light of these (ii) The National Lottery Charities Board shall devise considerations; and abide by a procedure for handling potential conflicts of interest which may arise in the Explanatory note evaluation of applications by the Board or individual members of the Board. This procedure, together Applications may relate to projects or programmes in three with a statement confirming the arrangements have broad geographical categories: been applied, should be provided to the Secretary of State before the distribution of any funds under i. those which benefit the whole UK, UK-wide section 25 of the Act, and thereafter at the services, facilities available to the whole UK beginning of each financial year. and pilot or innovatory work;
ii. those which benefit one particular country or Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for National smaller area within the UK; Heritage:
iii. overseas.
2. It is for the Board to determine the distribution of grants between these different interests, but its policies and grant making must take them into account. In particular, it is important that over time the proportion of grants made to organisations benefiting individual countries and smaller areas of 28 May 1997 David Chesterton the UK should take into account both relative A Group Head in the population sizes and socio-economic factors Department of pertaining to those countries or areas, and hence National Heritage
53 National Lottery Statement of 1. Introduction Financial Requirements Purpose and Status of this Statement Contents 1.1 This Statement of Financial Requirements (SFR) has been issued by the Secretary of State for 1. Introduction National Heritage and replaces that issued by the Purpose and Status of this Statement Home Secretary on 12 September 1995. Unless Aims of the National Lottery otherwise stated, references to "the Secretary of Operation of the National Lottery Distribution Fund State" in this document are to the Secretary of The Nature of Lottery Proceeds State for National Heritage, references to "the Application of Lottery Funds Department" are to the Department of National Heritage, references to "the body" are to the 2. The Structural Framework National Lottery Charities Board, references to the Accountability to Parliament "distributors" are to the Board and other appointed Responsibilities of the Department's Accounting Officer distributing bodies, and references to the Responsibilities of the Board's Accounting Officer "applicant" are to a person who submits an Additional Responsibilities of the Department of application to the Board and/or other distributors. National Heritage Accounting Officer 1.2 This Statement of Financial Requirements (SFR) 3. Processing of Applications sets out the financial framework within which the Applications for Lottery Grants National Lottery Charities Board ("the Board") will Guidelines to Applicants operate in its role as a distributor of National Considering Applications Lottery proceeds under Section 23 of the National Conditions of Grant Lottery etc Act 1993 (the 1993 Act). Under a Appraisal direction issued by the Secretary of State under Risk Analysis Section 26(3) of the 1993 Act, the requirements Project Monitoring and Evaluation set out in this Statement must be complied with to Treatment of Dual/Multiple Applications ensure the proper management and control of the Security Requirements proceeds of the Lottery. Duration of Conditions 1.3 Without prejudice to grants in respect of which 4. Repayment of Grant awards have been made prior to the date of the Circumstances Requiring the Repayment of Grant Statement, the provisions of this Statement take Accounting for Repayments immediate effect. This Statement is intended to be complementary to any Management Statement 5. Control of Costs agreed by the Department and the Board, the Administration Costs principles of which will apply to the costs of Value for Money administering the distribution of Lottery proceeds, Maintenance of an Asset Register unless otherwise stated in this document. In Performance Indicators distributing Lottery proceeds, the Board should operate within the principles of administrative law. 6. Audit Internal Audit Arrangements Aims of the National Lottery External Audit Arrangements 1.4 The National Lottery has been introduced by the 7. General Finance Matters Government to provide extra support for good Payment of Grant to Successful Applicants causes in addition to existing public funding. These Draw Down of Lottery Money from the NLDF good causes, identified in the 1993 Act, are: the Writing off thefts, losses and special payments arts, sport, the national heritage, charities and Fraud projects to mark the year 2000 and the beginning Contingent liabilities of the new millennium. Each area will receive 20% Forward Commitment of Lottery funds of the net proceeds. The Secretary of State for Overdrafts, borrowing, lending National Heritage can, by order, change the Code of Conduct proportion of the net proceeds received by each Gifts sector. With the exception of the Millennium Fund, Hospitality each of the sectors must always receive at least Insurance 5% of the net proceeds. The Millennium Fund will cease to receive additional funds on 31 December Annex A 2000 (unless extended by order), at which time its Information to be collected by distributors share of the net proceeds will, under current about each application received. arrangements, be divided between the other four Annex B sectors in proportion to their respective shares of Information to be collected by distributors the proceeds. about each successful application. Annex C Operation of the National Lottery Distribution Fund Standard Conditions of Grant. Annex D 1.5 The net proceeds of the National Lottery are paid Methods of payment of Lottery Grants. 54 by the licensed operator to the Secretary of State have copies of the accounts, and his report for National Heritage into a fund under his/her thereon, laid before Parliament. control and management called the National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF). The NLDF uses a small 2.2 The Board must produce annual accounts in proportion of its receipts to defray the costs of the respect of its activities under the 1993 Act, for Office of the Director General of the National audit and presentation to Parliament by the Lottery which have not been met from licence fees; Comptroller and Auditor General, in accordance with the expenses of the Secretary of State for National accounts directions given by the Secretary of State Heritage in fulfilling his/her functions under the with the approval of the Treasury, under section 1993 Act; and the expenses of the National Debt 39(2) of the 1993 Act. Commissioners incurred in investing the Fund's receipts. 2.3 The Board must also produce an annual report on its Lottery distribution activities, to be submitted to 1.6 The remainder (less any sums immediately required the Secretary of State for laying before Parliament for making payments to the distributors under by the end of October. However, every effort should section 24 of the 1993 Act) will be invested by the be made to lay the report with the annual accounts National Debt Commissioners on behalf of the required under section 39 of the 1993 Act. This distributing bodies. Interest, dividends and capital report must set out the directions made under gains resulting from these investments will be tax section 26 of the 1993 Act and applying to the exempt and will be divided among the individual Board during that financial year (including both bodies' accounts in relation to the balances held. policy and financial directions) and a statement of The balances on each body's account, including the Board's performance in complying with those interest payments, dividends received and capital directions. A statement of current commitments gains realised, may be drawn down as required for should be provided. The report must give summary meeting expenditure on projects approved by the information for all projects and schemes approved body for National Lottery funding and the body's in the year and also list all projects which are expenses in administering the Lottery. Details of expected to receive £100,000 or more of Lottery how draw down should be effected are at funding. This list should include a description of the paragraphs 7.2-7.5. progress, current and future financing of all major projects funded (ie. all those involving £5 million or The Nature of Lottery Proceeds more of Lottery funding). The report should also include details of project monitoring activities (see 1.7 Lottery proceeds allocated to good causes by the section 3.17 below) and a detailed breakdown of National Lottery distributing bodies will be General administration costs (see section 5.1 below). Government Expenditure, but outside the public expenditure New Control Total. Consequently, Responsibilities of the Department's Accounting Officer Government Accounting principles must be applied when designing financial controls to ensure that 2.4 The Department's Accounting Officer is responsible Lottery money is properly accounted for. for satisfying himself that the Board meets its responsibilities to the Secretary of State and Application of Lottery Funds Parliament. Specifically, this means satisfying himself that: 1.8 The National Lottery etc Act 1993 sets out the powers in accordance with which the Board shall 1) the Board acts in accordance with the directions distribute Lottery funds for charitable expenditure. issued by the Secretary of State under section 26(1) of the 1993 Act; 1.9 Money provided by the National Lottery, other than 2) financial and other management controls those amounts used to defray expenses incurred in including monitoring and audit applied by the administering the distribution of Lottery funds, Department (under section 26(3)) are must be used in response to applications for grants appropriate and sufficient to safeguard the use under the 1993 Act, in compliance with the of Lottery funds, conform with the requirements directions made by the Secretary of State under of propriety and regularity and good financial Section 26(1) of the 1993 Act. management and are regularly monitored to ensure compliance; 2. The Structural Framework 3) financial and other management controls applied by the Board in their use of Lottery Accountability to Parliament money conform with the requirements of propriety and regularity and good financial 2.1 The Secretary of State for National Heritage is management; responsible, under the 1993 Act, for the control 4) there is a statement of the financial relationship and management of the National Lottery between the Department and the Board (the Distribution Fund (NLDF), from which all Statement of Financial Requirements) and that disbursements under the Lottery will be made. The this is reviewed regularly; Secretary of State is required to prepare accounts 5) the DNH Accounting Officer is informed of any in respect of the NLDF in the form and at such systems failure in the distribution of Lottery times as the Treasury may direct. Such accounts proceeds by the Board. will be sent to the Comptroller and Auditor General who shall examine, certify and report on them and
55 Responsibilities of the Board's Accounting Officer processing lottery applications and paying funds, (where this is permissible within the 2.5 Roles and responsibilities of various AOs in the constraints of administrative law - see section Lottery distributors are set out in the DNH paper 3.5), are fit and proper and have established issued in July 1996. The Board's Chief Executive appropriate management arrangements. This has been appointed by the DNH Accounting Officer requires a check that adequate systems are in to be the Board's accounting officer. The place for regular and proper financial accounting officer's general duties for proper management, appraisal, prevention of fraud, management and control of the running costs of monitoring, dealing with conflicts of interest and Lottery distribution are set out in the letter from the audit which are generally consistent with the Home Office Departmental Accounting Officer dated requirements set out in this SFR. This 29 March 1995 and in the prevailing edition of the reinforces rather than detracts from the Treasury Memorandum "The Responsibilities of a obligations of the Accounting Officer. NDPB Accounting Officer". The accounting officer's responsibility to the DAO is confined to ensuring The Board's Accounting Officer shall also be that Lottery money is distributed with due regularity responsible for informing the DAO of any and propriety (ie. that all items of expenditure and systems failure in the distribution of Lottery receipts are dealt with in accordance with the proceeds by the Board of such a size and legislation authorising them, any applicable nature as, in the opinion of the Board's delegated authority and the established principles Accounting Officer may call into question the of Government Accounting; and in accordance with propriety of continuing to draw down money Parliament's intentions), taking account as from the Distribution Fund. appropriate of any Management Statement agreed by the Department and the Board. Additional Responsibilities of the Department of National Heritage Accounting Officer 2.6 The Board's accounting officer is responsible to the Board for the economic, efficient and effective use 2.7 In addition to carrying out the responsibilities and control of the Board's share of the net identified at paragraph 2.4 in respect of his proceeds of the National Lottery. The accounting Department's distributing bodies, the DNH officer may nominate an officer responsible for the Accounting Officer is also Accounting Officer for the day to day management and control of the Board's National Lottery Distribution Fund. The DNH AO is Lottery proceeds, but must not delegate absolutely responsible for ensuring that Lottery proceeds are to any person any of the responsibilities described drawn down from the NLDF in accordance with the below. Specifically, the Board's accounting officer procedures set out in paragraphs 7.2 to 7.5 of this shall be responsible to the Board for: Statement, are used for the general purposes for which they were drawn down and are not drawn 1) advising on the discharge of its responsibilities down in advance of need, taking into account under the 1993 Act, including ensuring that the distributing bodies' best estimates of likely Board has complied with the directions under payments to be made during the period. section 26(1) of the 1993 Act when considering individual applications; 3. Processing of Applications 2) ensuring that systems implemented to administer Lottery applications, and process Applications for Lottery Grants and monitor Lottery grants, are sound and fit for the purpose; 3.1 Lottery funds may only be distributed in response 3) exercising proper control over expenditure and to a properly worked up application from an outside resources, including administration, manpower, person or organisation, operating independently capital assets and equipment, taking into from the Board. Application forms should be made account any Management Statement as available to potential applicants and in response to appropriate; requests for Lottery funds not made on the official 4) signing the accounts for the Board's Lottery form - for example in letters received from distribution activities, in a form directed by the individuals. The Board must ensure that it obtains Secretary of State and in doing so, being sufficient information from applicants to enable it satisfied as to their accuracy and to comply with the requirements set out in completeness; paragraphs 3.6 and 3.7 below and may request 5) ensuring that the Board keeps proper records of other information from applicants as it considers its Lottery distribution activities and presents appropriate to assess and/or process applications. them as may be directed by the Secretary of Nothing in this section prevents the Board from State in accordance with the 1993 Act; giving major projects initial consideration based on 6) ensuring the proper and effective management outline information or a description of the concept of cash movements and balances, to ensure of the project. that commitments are properly taken into account at all times; 3.2 The application form must include a clear 7) writing off losses and making special payments statement, to be signed by the applicant or a as described in paragraphs 7.6 and 7.7 of this person duly authorised to sign on the applicant's document. behalf, to the effect that all information provided by h) ensuring that bodies which are engaged as the applicant is truthful and accurate, and that, partners or agents for the purpose of where applicable, falls within the objects of the
56 applicant's constitution, and that the applicant has certain circumstances and are therefore optional. the power to accept grant subject to conditions, The Board should also consider the need to add and to repay grant in the event of grant conditions further conditions to the standard ones depending not being met. The Board must make it clear to on the nature of the grant and the circumstances of applicants that any materially misleading the applicant. statements (whether deliberate or accidental) given at any stage during the application process could Appraisal render the application invalid and the applicant liable to return any money already paid out on the 3.10 The Board has been directed under section 26(1) of project or scheme in question. the 1993 Act to take into account:
Guidelines to Applicants "the need to consider in both financial and practical terms the likely viability of ventures in respect of 3.3 In order to ensure that applications come forward which it is proposed to distribute money, and also in the appropriate form, the Board must publish the likely availability of other funding to meet any and regularly update guidance advising potential continuing costs for a reasonable period after applicants of how to apply for funds. This guidance completion of the period for which the Board is must be made widely available to ensure that proposing to make a grant." potential applicants are not disadvantaged. In order to implement the above policy direction, 3.4 The Board must ensure, where appropriate, that the Board must have clearly developed policies and applicants for funds are informed of the procedures for the financial, and, where circumstances in which they will have to satisfy the appropriate, economic appraisal of projects. The EC procurement rules set out in Public Works scope of these policies and procedures will depend Directives, Supplies Directive and Services on the scale and nature (ie revenue or capital) of Directives. DNH guidance note 2, issued in the project being assessed. September 1996, explains the workings and application of the Directives. * For capital projects over a value to be determined by the Board, the Board's policies Considering Applications and procedures, and the requirements set out within them, should reflect where appropriate 3.5 All eligible applications must be determined by the the principles of economic appraisal as Board. Under administrative law, this decision described in the most appropriate Government making function cannot be delegated to other guidance - Economic Appraisal in Central bodies, but may be exercised in accordance with Government (HM Treasury), Option Appraisal of the Board's general administrative powers. When Expenditure Decisions (DNH), or Economic considering applications, the Board must comply Appraisal of Property Options (HM Treasury). with the directions issued by the Secretary of State under Section 26(1) of the 1993 Act. * For revenue projects over a value to be determined by the Board, the Board's policies 3.6 The Board must record basic information about and procedures should include a requirement every fully worked-up application it receives, for an assessment of risks and the value for including those that prove to be unsuccessful. money to be achieved to be carried out where Annex A provides details of the information that appropriate. should be recorded. The information should be kept in a form that enables reports to be easily The policies and procedures must be agreed with extracted from it. the Department, which will consult the Treasury, and should make clear what steps the Board will 3.7 For wholly or partly successful applications, further take, and/or require applicants to take, in respect data should also be recorded to allow for a wider of different sizes and types of projects. The policies range of reports and information to be extracted. and procedures, and the requirements placed on The requirements of this section are set out in applicants, should be clearly communicated to Annex B. applicants, and all applications should be assessed in accordance with them. The policies and 3.8 Such information as the Board possesses, or has procedures should be considered as a minimum the power to acquire, on individual applications and requirement, and the Board should retain the right summary data on different types or groups of to impose additional appraisal requirements on the projects or schemes may be requested at any time applicant, or carry out additional appraisal by the Secretary of State, under Section 26 (4)(b) procedures itself, where appropriate, depending on of the 1993 Act. the risks associated with particular applications. Where an application is made to more than one Conditions of Grant distributor, appraisal requirements should be harmonised as far as possible. 3.9 Every grant approval must be accompanied by a set of terms and conditions, with which the recipient must comply. The list at Annex C identifies conditions that must be included in respect of all grant approvals and those that may be applicable in
57 Risk Analysis 3.16 Further monitoring of Lottery supported capital projects should be continued after completion once 3.11 An appropriate assessment of risks and the facility is operational. Where appropriate, uncertainties is an important part of the appraisal information should be gathered on the nature and process. The Board should have clear policies on frequency of use to provide assurance that where they will require risk appraisal and individual project objectives are being met and to communicate these to applicants, taking account of assist with evaluation studies of samples of the type and value of schemes. Risk appraisal projects. Such information should be collected for should identify and analyse the main risks involved an appropriate period as determined by the Board. and set out how they are to be managed and For programmes of revenue awards post completion funded. analysis should generally be carried out by evaluation studies. 3.12 The Board should ensure that they have sufficient staff or resources, or access to staff or resources, 3.17 At the end of each financial year, a report on who have an adequate understanding of appraisal, monitoring and evaluation studies carried out by risk analysis, procurement and project management the Board or on the Board's behalf during that year of capital works projects to deal with major must be included in the Board's annual report sent applications (ie over £500,000). to the Secretary of State (see paragraph 2.3).
Project Monitoring and Evaluation Treatment of Dual/Multiple Applications
3.13 The twin procedures of monitoring and evaluation 3.18 It is vital to ensure that the same costs of a project should enable the Board to be satisfied that: or schemes are not funded from more than one source. All distributing bodies will therefore need to 1) Lottery resources are being used for the share certain information about the applications purposes for which the grant was given and that they receive, so that any duplicate or multiple the projects and schemes supported represent applications can be identified. The distributing value for money; bodies' administrative systems must allow for the 2) Lottery projects and schemes are delivering the exchange of such information. The Board may also benefits identified on the original application wish to establish informal arrangements with any form and in accordance with the specified other organisations which provide funding for financial arrangements; similar schemes, to minimise the potential for 3) assets purchased under the project are being fraud. Reference to the existence of these checking used for the purpose for which they were arrangements should be made on the application intended. form.
3.14 The Board should institute a system for project 3.19 The multiple applications cross-referencing facility monitoring in respect of capital and revenue is intended to fulfill this requirement. The facility schemes supported with Lottery funds. Written will be provided by a third party who will enter into procedures and agreed criteria should be a contractual agreement with the one nominated established to monitor whether the objectives and distributor (the Contract Manager), on behalf of the terms and conditions of grants are being met. eleven distributing bodies. The day to day These arrangements should be integral to the management and operation of the facility will be Board's financial and management control systems undertaken by the Contract Manager, as agent of and contribute to systems for preventing an abuse the eleven distributors. of funding and provide feedback for future projects and schemes. In addition, the Board should agree 3.20 Distributing bodies are required to sign a a policy for the evaluation of its projects and Memorandum of Agreement, which sets out the schemes. Evaluation should particularly apply to arrangements between the Contract Manager and programmes of awards, where individual analysis the distributors concerning the management and may be impracticable. operation of the facility. They should ensure that the outputs from the multiple applications cross 3.15 Such procedures will need to ensure that there are referencing system are promptly and effectively sufficient monitoring indicators to cover significant checked in line with the procedures and targets risk arising on all capital projects; including agreed. construction delays, material changes in specification, and costs overruns. For both capital Security Requirements and revenue projects a completion check should be undertaken to confirm that the project was 3.21 Where an asset (normally in the form of land, completed in line with the objectives set out in the buildings and installations and/or where there is application (this check may be by receipt of commercial funding) is being developed or certified proformas or physical visits). Where the improved, the Board shall, based on an awards process is administered by an agent or assessment of risk, consider what action to take. If partner, the terms of the award should provide for security is to be taken it should normally take the it to carry out monitoring activity on the Board's form of a prior ranking security but the Board may behalf and report appropriately. The agent or decide to take a security of equivalent rank or to partner should also be subject to monitoring by the subordinate its security on agreed terms where this Board. is considered appropriate in order to achieve the
58 carrying out of the project. Where security any circumstances have arisen justifying repayment requirements are considered to be necessary, the of the grant under conditions set out in paragraph Board should consider carefully the most 3.9 and Annex C. Appropriate action may be taken appropriate method for achieving this (eg legal by the Board to recover Lottery funds in such charges, floating debentures or third party cases. Particular care should be taken to ensure indemnities). that the conditions of grant permit the recovery of grant paid to a charity (see DAO 3/89) or a church Duration of Conditions body.
3.22 The period of duration for conditions of grant in 4.4 Where a decision is taken that it would not be relation to assets shall depend on the type and appropriate or possible for a grant to be recovered proposed use of the asset being acquired, either in total or in part, the Board may have to developed or improved. For appreciating assets the "write-off" the lost amount. Advice on "write-off" period should be unlimited. In the case of all other procedures is contained in section 7.6 and 7.7 of assets, including land and buildings, the period this document. should relate to their normal economic life or, if not appropriate, a reasonable period. Where Accounting for Repayments appropriate, the Board should seek advice on an appropriate economic life and not rely on standard 4.5 If funds are repaid, for instance as a consequence periods. of Lottery money invested in a commercial venture which makes profits, they should be treated as 4. Repayment of Grant "other income" and netted off from subsequent draw down requests in that period. Circumstances Requiring the Repayment of Grant 5. Control of Costs 4.1 Every grant approval must be accompanied by a set of terms and conditions requiring the applicant to Administration Costs pay to the Board a share of the net proceeds from the disposal of land, buildings or appreciating 5.1 The Board must provide the Secretary of State with assets purchased, restored, conserved or improved a detailed breakdown of its administration costs at with the assistance of Lottery funding within a the end of each financial year and at any other time reasonable period of completion. Similar terms and when requested by him/her. conditions should be made in respect of other types of assets purchased, restored, conserved or Value for Money improved with the assistance of Lottery funding (where such a sale is permitted by the Board) 5.2 The Board must have due regard to the need to which should be enforceable during the agreed secure value for money when expending any economic life of the assets or such improvements. amounts in connection with the administration of Where appropriate, the Board should seek advice its activities, in accordance with the principles of on the appropriate economic life and not rely on Government Accounting and any Management standard periods. Such repayment, including where Statement. appropriate and where the Board's powers permit, any surplus over costs, should be in direct 5.3 The Department's Accounting Officer is responsible proportion to the share of the relevant costs made for ensuring that the Board's banking arrangements from Lottery funding. Lottery grants may also have safeguard public funds. The Board's accounting to be repaid if any of the conditions of grant are officer is responsible for ensuring that the Board's broken (see 3.9). banking arrangements are in accordance with the requirements of Government Accounting and are 4.2 Notwithstanding paragraph 4.1, the Board need not carried out efficiently, effectively, and economically. seek to recover, in total or in part, a grant to a The Board must ensure that its banking Building Preservation Trust or similar organisation, arrangements for Lottery funds are suitably where the net proceeds of disposal of the structured, represent value for money and are building(s) (ie the cash sum remaining after the reviewed at least every two years, with a costs of disposal have been deducted from the fundamental review, usually leading to market proceeds of sale) are less than the amount of testing, at least every three to five years. The costs funded and cash equivalent of goods and Board's accounting officer is responsible for services in kind provided, by all sources to the providing such information about banking project (the Project Costs). The Board should take arrangements as may be required from time to the estimated net proceeds into account when time, to enable the Departmental Accounting determining grant levels. It should not, as a rule, Officer to satisfy his responsibilities. make grants which exceed in cash terms the costs which are unlikely to be recouped on disposal. 5.4 The Board must comply with relevant EC law on Where the net proceeds exceed the Project Costs, public procurement as appropriate. Maintenance of the surplus net proceeds remaining are to be an Asset Register repaid as described in paragraph 4.1 above. 5.5 The Board must maintain an asset register which 4.3 The Board should obtain such information as it must include details of those capital assets valued considers necessary in order to determine whether above £500.
59 Performance Indicators 7. General Finance Matters
5.6 The Board is required to provide the Secretary of Payment of Grant to Successful Applicants State with such information as he/she may require about its performance in administering Lottery 7.1 Payments should take one of four forms shown in funds and in taking account of matters specified in Annex D. When making grant payments, the Board directions issued under section 26(1) of the 1993 should bear in mind the need to ensure that funds Act. The Board must develop and operate a system are made available without undue delay, so that the for analysing its performance in agreement with the recipient can settle bills promptly in accordance Department. Performance measures should be set with standard commercial practice. The Board is by the Board and included in the annual corporate responsible for developing an efficient and cost plan. Progress against targets should be reported effective payments system that enables it to make to the Department in a regular performance report. prompt payments, whilst minimising administration costs. 6. Audit Draw Down of Lottery Money from the NLDF Internal Audit Arrangements 7.2 Each distributing body's share of the net proceeds 6.1 The Board must maintain effective internal audit is held separately within the National Lottery arrangements. The Board's accounting officer is Distribution Fund (the NLDF account). Balances responsible for obtaining an effective internal audit held at the NLDF attract interest as long as they service for the Board, in a manner which best are in the account. Funds drawn down by the Board represents value for money. Internal audit must be from this account must be held in the Board's bank conducted in accordance with the objectives and account for onward payment to successful grant standards of Government Accounting. The guidance applicants. Neither of these two accounts may be on best practice contained within the Government overdrawn. Internal Audit Manual and Government Information Systems Audit Manual should also be observed. A 7.3 Requests for draw down of funds must be made copy of the annual internal audit report, together through the Department of National Heritage on the with the management response and any action form issued for that purpose. This form will include plan, must be sent to the Secretary of State. In a certification which must be signed by an addition, the Department's Accounting Officer will appropriate officer of the Board, to confirm that the be entitled to take such steps as he considers draw down request complies with the rules set out appropriate to satisfy himself that acceptable audit in this document. Under his/her powers under standards and coverage within the Board are being section 24 of the 1993 Act, the Secretary of State achieved. for National Heritage will not authorise the draw down of funds for distribution by any body, until External Audit Arrangements he/she is satisfied that they have the appropriate systems in place properly to manage and control 6.2 The Board's Statement of Accounts must be sent their share of the NLDF funds. The Board's to the Comptroller and Auditor General for him to accounting officer must, therefore, submit a examine, certify and report and lay before statement verified by the National Audit Office to Parliament. The Board must seek from the NAO the Secretary of State for National Heritage, to the checks on a sample of its appraisals of individual effect that the Board's systems are acceptable and projects, to ensure that its standards of project fit for the purpose of distributing Lottery funds and appraisal (see para. 3.10) have been applied to that they have the necessary skilled resources Lottery funding decisions and remain current and available to implement these systems. This credible. Any NAO management letter issued after statement will be required before the first draw the audit of accounts and the Board's management down for distribution can take place, and at any response, must be forwarded to the Secretary of time when requested by the Secretary of State for State. National Heritage thereafter.
6.3 The Board's Statement of Accounts, along with the 7.4 For ease of administration and to maximise the books, documents or papers of the Board that return on funds invested by the National Debt relate to them, shall be open to inspection by the Commissioners (NDC), funds should generally be Comptroller and Auditor General and to any persons drawn down only once a month and where possible, so authorised by the Secretary of State. The in accordance with a profile which must be drawn Comptroller and Auditor General may carry out such up by the Board at the beginning of each financial examinations into the economy, efficiency and year. This profile should be agreed with the DNH to effectiveness with which the Board has used its assist them in their administration and the NDC's resources in discharging its functions as he sees fund management and will be rolled forward each fit. quarter. Individual draw down requests outside the monthly system will be permitted in circumstances with the advance agreement of the Department of National Heritage (for example to meet urgent requirements or to avoid the consequences of taxation on cash balances) There is no requirement for the Board to draw down all of its expected share
60 of the proceeds in a particular year. There are no submitted to the Board's accounting officer. Where annuality restrictions and balances can be built up information provided by the multiple applications in the NLDF to earn interest. The Board must also system, or any other source, indicates that a fraud submit a statement outlining forward commitments may be occurring across more than one distributing outstanding at the end of each quarter (see para. body, then the appointment of a joint investigator 7.11). should be agreed by the distributors concerned. Appropriate action must be taken to ensure that 7.5 The Board must only draw down funds for similar frauds cannot be perpetrated. distribution or to meet Lottery administration costs and not for investment. It may hold funds for a 7.9 The controls must provide for all cases of short time in its bank account (which may be an suspected or actual fraud within the Board to be interest-bearing instant access account) to facilitate reported to the Board and the Department the smooth and timely payment of grants to immediately. For the avoidance of doubt, suspected awardees, but may not otherwise invest Lottery frauds are those where initial enquiries have money on its own behalf or draw down Lottery confirmed that an irregularity has occurred, that funds in advance of its best estimate of payments there is a reasonable possibility that fraudulent to be made during the period. Any interest earned actions are involved, and that further investigation must be used for the purposes specified in the is needed to determine the cause. The Board's 1993 Act. accounting officer is also responsible for reporting such cases to the local police, the Serious Fraud Writing off thefts, losses and special payments Office and other authorities as appropriate. A return must be submitted to the Department in respect of 7.6 Theft, failed or unpursued repayments of grant or each financial year, within two months of the end of losses of cash, equipment, stores etc suffered by that year, detailing all cases of actual fraud. The the Board may only be written off or special return should state how the frauds were identified payments authorised, after a most careful appraisal and detected and what further action will be taken of the facts. The Board must satisfy itself that to prevent a recurrence. there is no feasible alternative to a write-off, that in the case of losses and failed repayments of grant, Contingent liabilities that all reasonable action has been taken to effect recovery, and that in the case of unpursued 7.10 The Board must not issue any guarantee, repayment of grant, that action to seek recovery indemnity, or letter or statement of comfort which would not be reasonable in the circumstances. A creates a financial commitment, nor incur any other record must be kept of all write-offs, thefts and contingent liability (whether or not in legally binding losses and of any special payments given or form) except as approved by the Department. A received. All write-offs, cash losses and special note of the contingent liabilities existing at the end payments must also be recorded in the Statement of each financial year must be included in the of Accounts for each financial year according to the Statement of Accounts for that year. Liabilities definitions in Chapter 36 of Government Accounting entered into in the normal course of the Board's and the procedures under paragraphs 12.6.17 and business (see Chapter 26 of Government 12.6.18 of Government Accounting. Accounting for definitions), will not be classed as contingent liabilities for this purpose. The normal 7.7 The Board's accounting officer shall have the course of the Board's business will be deemed to personal responsibility to write off losses of grant include formal approval to the provision of Lottery and, within limits authorised by the Board, to make grant up to the amount specified in the letter special payments. The criteria for determining such confirming the offer of grant and taking into action and the authorisation procedures to be account all the conditions attached to it. These will followed, must be approved in advance by the include the agreement of the applicant that the Secretary of State. The write-off of individual losses provision of Lottery finance can be guaranteed only exceeding £25,000, together with details of special to the extent that the National Lottery continues to payments exceeding £25,000, must be reported in operate (see also Annex C paragraph vii) and the every case to the Departmental Accounting Officer. Board continues to receive sufficient funds from it.
Fraud Forward Commitment of Lottery funds
7.8 The Board must have effective controls to prevent 7.11 The Board must consider what level of forward and detect fraud and systems in place to deal commitments of Lottery funds it considers to be effectively with cases of fraud, however they might prudent and appropriate in the light of past and have been identified (including by the NAO). The projected income flows. The Board must monitor Board must also take appropriate steps to satisfy the level of commitments against that benchmark itself that applicants have taken the necessary and take action to keep commitment levels within action to minimize the risk of fraud. Controls must that figure. A report on the level of outstanding allow for the Board's accounting officer to be commitments must be submitted to the notified immediately if any attempted, suspected or Department of National Heritage each quarter. proven fraud occurs involving Lottery proceeds, including those involving grant recipients. The Board shall ensure that an independent, prompt and thorough investigation is carried out and a report
61 Overdrafts, borrowing, lending Annex A Information to be collected by the Board about each 7.12 The Board must not have a bank overdraft or application received. borrow money in any other way. Nor will it make loans of Lottery money (unless connected with an Section 3.6 approved lottery application or for the purposes of travel season tickets for employees), or of assets, ii) unique reference number; or charge any assets as security. iii) name and address of applicant; iv) short description of project or scheme ; Code of Conduct v) date applicant was notified of final decision (date of award announcement or date application is failed); 7.13 Under the second Financial Direction, a procedure vi) award status (accepted or failed); for handling conflicts of interest should be vii) location of project or scheme (by town/city and established and maintained. This procedure should country if appropriate) and postcode (which should be embodied in an ethical code which covers other be validated by the Board); matters of propriety such as those mentioned in viii) expected benefits of the project; paragraphs 7.14 and 7.15 below. The code should ix) award(or failed application) type - ie. capital or/and apply to both members and officials. revenue; grants round theme x) total project or scheme cost (as per application) Gifts xi) Lottery grant applied for (in cash and as a percentage of the total project /scheme cost) 7.14 The Board shall not use Lottery funds for the xii) whether the application is for the whole purpose of giving gifts, except where the value is project/scheme or just a part of it (for example, a £50 or less. There should be a general feasibility study or design stage), with cross presumption against the receipt of gifts. Gifts references to any related applications; should only be accepted by Board members or any xiii) type of applicant eg charity, voluntary body, other; member of staff where they are of an immaterial xiv) benefit area of project, either UK wide, countrywide nature and should be recorded in a separate or regional; register maintained for that purpose. The total xv) estimated project or scheme completion date; amount given and received in gifts must be xvi) whether or not the applicant has previously applied, recorded in the Board's annual report. is currently applying or intends to apply for Lottery funding from another distributing body, or is Hospitality applying for funds from any other source, and the name of that source of funding ; 7.15 Hospitality should not be accepted if it could be xvii) date application received; seen to compromise personal judgement or integrity. In this context, no account need be taken This information should be kept in a form that enables of the provision of light refreshments such as tea reports to be easily extracted from it. or coffee, working lunches or hospitality designed for a wider group, where this is directly related to Annex B the Board's area of activity. When there is doubt Information to be collected by distributors about each whether to accept invitations, the Accounting successful application. Officer should be consulted. A record of hospitality should be maintained. Section 3.7 (in addition to that collected under Section 3.6) Insurance ii) summary of main items of expenditure; 7.16 The Board must decide whether or not to take out iii) timetable for the project or scheme including commercial insurance in respect of any or all of its completion date; Lottery distribution activities. In accordance with iv) the applicant's nominated project officer; Government Accounting, when making this decision, v) any known other funders of the project; the Board must consider which course of action vi) where there are other known funders, the value of represents best value for money, taking into each funder's contribution towards the total cost of account that any claims that were not covered by the project (in cash terms, including the market insurance would have to be met from Lottery funds. valuation of any significant contributions made in The Board must consider whether better value for kind, and as a percentage of the total project cost; money is obtained by taking such risks on their vii) information on the use of volunteers in the project; Lottery funds or by taking out commercial viii) any exceptional circumstances surrounding the insurance. project or scheme.
Annex C Standard Conditions of Grant.
Section 3.9
ii) that the grant must be used for the purpose set out in the approved application, as amended or varied with the agreement of the Board, and is non-
62 transferable. It must be made clear that the grant charge on land or buildings, or on the strength of may have to be repaid in full or in part if there is a any other asset during its agreed economic life, will material change of purpose or ownership, either require the approval of the Board if that asset has during the project or within a reasonable period been financed by the Lottery. This provision applies after its completion (as determined by the duration only where the Lottery has contributed more than of the conditions), such that in the Board's view it £25,000. seems unlikely to fulfill the purpose for which the xii) that where procurement of goods, services or grant was made, or if any of the grant conditions works is proposed, competitive tendering should be are broken; applied unless there are overriding reasons why iii) that where there is a material change in the this would be inappropriate (eg. below a de minimis purpose of the project or scheme, or its ownership, level set by the Board, technical or artistic reasons, or the recipient changes during the project or protection of exclusive rights). Public bodies must scheme, the application must be re-considered by comply with relevant domestic and European the distributor; legislation on competition. iv) that the appropriate share of any underspend on the project or scheme must be returned to the When considering whether additional conditions of grant Board; should be applied, the Board shall consider including the v) that the direct recipient must supply the Board with following; regular progress reports as required and with any further financial or other information that may be a) that the grant will not be increased in the event of required by the Board, to monitor its Lottery an overspend on the project or scheme. Any expenditure; variation in the level of support would have to be vi) that the recipient shall take steps to monitor the the subject of a revised application and re- success of the project or scheme and shall provide assessment by the Board; the Board with any information it requires to satisfy b) that in the event of the sale or disposal of the itself that the project or scheme has been asset or goods acquired through Lottery funding, completed properly and in accordance with the Board's share of the proceeds shall be in direct these†conditions; proportion to the share of the relevant costs vii) that in addition to the above, the Lottery grant originally met from Lottery funds; become repayable to the Board and any future c) that the grant will support only actual expenditure payments stopped, where: on the items identified in the approved application; d) any other condition(s) which the Board judges to be a) the recipient ceases to operate, or is declared necessary. bankrupt, or is placed into receivership or liquidation, or in Scotland his estate is sequestrated or he makes an arrangement with, Annex D or grants a Trust Deed for, his creditors; Methods of payment of Lottery Grants. b) the recipient fails to apply the grant for the purposes for which it was awarded, or fails to Section 7.1 complete the project or scheme; c) the application form was completed fraudulently, ii) one-off payments at the end of the project or incorrectly or misleadingly in any material scheme on production of invoices in respect of particular; and goods and services received, certified as d) the applicant has acted fraudulently or appropriate by a suitably qualified professional; negligently at any time during the completion of iii) phased payments over the life of the project or the project or scheme and directly or indirectly scheme, paid in stages on production of invoices or to the detriment of the project or scheme. valuation certificates in respect of goods and services received, certified as appropriate by a viii) that the recipient accepts that the provision of suitably qualified professional; Lottery finance can only be guaranteed to the iv) payment in advance for clearly identified agreed extent that the National Lottery continues to costs where the applicant can demonstrate it lacks operate and the Board receives funds from it; resources of its own to fund such costs; ix) that depreciating assets or goods wholly or partly iv) payments to other Distributing Bodies for projects acquired through Lottery funding, shall not be sold which they have agreed to support. within a specified period after the completion of the Such payments will be connected to an approved project, or at any time for land and buildings, wholly lottery scheme. or partly so acquired, without the prior written permission of the Board (see Government Accounting Chapter 32); x) subject to (viii), that appreciating assets (including historic artefacts) may not be sold at any time without the prior written permission of the Board. When such assets are sold, the seller must take steps (and be able to demonstrate that steps have been taken) to ensure that the sale is made at a proper market value (see Government Accounting Chapter 32); xi) that any proposal to raise a mortgage or legal
63 Where to find us Office addresses
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64 Our corporate goals
Geographical equity: we will allocate funds and distribute grants to communities in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and each of the England regions, and to England-wide and UK-wide projects, to ensure a fair geographic spread, taking into account levels of deprivation.
Reflecting diversity: we will award grants to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the voluntary sector and the diverse needs of communities living in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the regions of England.
Making a difference: we will take steps to measure and maximise the impact of grants by monitoring and evaluating funded projects and publicising good practice.
Operating efficiently: we will be financially efficient and keep under review our operating costs in relation to our grant-making and our income from the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Managing effectively: we will manage effectively the grant-making process – from handling applications through to grant management.
Accessible and open grant-making: we will ensure that we are accessible to a wide range of organisations and communities, operate an efficient information service to the voluntary sector and the general public and consult regularly on progress and objectives.
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